Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was being held in the jail at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in July 1892. According to a telegraph dispatch printed in The State Chronicle, a mob of about six thousand men reached the jail at midnight. The dispatch says the mob overpowered the guards, took him from the jail and lynched him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A State Chronicle telegraph dispatch reports that a mob of about six thousand overpowered the guards at the Vicksburg jail and lynched a man named Smith.
Reported by: State Chronicle telegraph dispatch (reporters).