Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man whose name was not recorded was taken from the Amory jail in Monroe County, Mississippi, by a mob and hanged. A United Press dispatch published in The Daily State Chronicle in September 1890 links his death to a second lynching from the same jail. The same group took both men from the Amory jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A United Press dispatch reports that a second man was taken from the Amory jail by a mob and hanged.
Reported by: United Press dispatch (reporters).