Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was held in the jail at Adams, Mississippi, when, according to the Hazlehurst Signal, several hundred people overpowered the constable on June 29, 1885. The mob took him from custody and hanged him from a tree about half a mile from town. His name is not given in the account, and the newspaper's record of the events is incomplete.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.