Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Alcorn County, Mississippi

A man named in The Greenville Times, published August 25, 1900, only as Jack Bet ti was held in the jail at Corinth, Mississippi. According to the paper, a mob took him from the jail and lynched him. The jail or sheriff's response to the mob is not described.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report