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 building on the night of December 29, 1883, and killed them, according to a brief wire report published in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union. The report gives no name, age or sex for the person. It does not say whether the jailer or other officers resisted the mob or handed the person over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire report.