Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the Tishomingo County jail in Mississippi was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged in July 1889, according to a short item in the Iuka Reporter from January 1890. The newspaper's text garbles his name, so it cannot be given here. The item does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed the man over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.