Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A mob took one of four people held in the jail at Yazoo City, Mississippi, 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 on December 31, 1883. The report gives the person's killing as the only event it describes, and names the jail as the place the person was held. The person was one of four people held there at the time.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire report.