Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Poplarville, Mississippi, was taken from it by a mob in 1959, according to a Holmes County Herald column published May 14 of that year. The column, by Graz Rutz and quoting a Michigan Republican congressman, says he was presumably killed. It does not give his name, the date of the seizure, or whether the sheriff or jailers resisted the mob or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A columnist, quoting a Michigan congressman, says a mob took a Black man from a jail at Poplarville, Mississippi, and he disappeared.
Reported by: Graz Rutz, columnist, quoting a Michigan Republican congressman (reporters).