Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black people held in the jail at Jefferson, Texas, were taken from the building by a group that has not been identified, and were hanged. The 1900 report does not name the three or give their ages, and it does not say how the jail staff responded or whether they resisted. The account appeared in The Weekly Corinthian, a Mississippi newspaper, on November 22, 1900.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.