Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name is not recorded in the source, was held in the jail at Shubuta, Mississippi, when a mob took him from the jail and hanged him in late 1918. According to reports, four Black people were taken from the jail that way, and all four were hanged from the girders of a bridge over the Chickasawhay River. The account of the killings reached Mobile, Alabama, as information received there, and it gives no further detail about this person.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: information received in Mobile (reporters).