Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the custody of the sheriff near Letohatchie, Alabama, in March 1900 was taken from the sheriff by a mob and hanged, according to a short dispatch in the Oxford Eagle. His name is not given in the account. The dispatch does not say how the mob reached him or whether the sheriff resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.