Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A woman held in the Natchez jail in Mississippi was taken from her cell by a mob in August 1875 and hanged, according to a brief item in The Louisiana Cotton-Boll. Her name cannot be read in the surviving text, so she is recorded without one. The item ties the mob's action to the death of a young Black girl, but it does not say whether jail staff or the sheriff resisted, gave up the keys, or handed her over. The paper's description of the woman is not repeated here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Louisiana Cotton-Boll newspaper report says a group took a woman from her cell at the Natchez jail and hanged her.
Reported by: Louisiana Cotton-Boll (reporters).