Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A mob took one of four people held in the Yazoo City, Mississippi, jail from the jail on the night of Saturday, December 29, 1883, and killed them, according to a brief wire report published in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union. The person's name is not given in the report. They were among the people the jail held that night, and the mob reached them there.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.