Died in custody
Name not reported
A Black man held under guard at Rolling Fork, Mississippi, was taken from his guards on October 13, 1884, by a group of masked men, according to a newspaper dispatch published the next day. The dispatch says the men hanged him from the timbers of a railroad bridge. The man is not named in the account, and it does not say whether the guards resisted or gave up the keys. The paper reported that the community deplored the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch reported that masked men took him from his guard and hanged him from a railroad bridge.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch.