Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a short Sacramento Daily Record-Union dispatch published May 8, 1886, a Black man held in a Mississippi jail was taken from the jail by a group of citizens on May 7, 1886, and hanged. The dispatch gives no name for him. Nothing in the account indicates what the jailers did when the crowd arrived.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A short 1886 news dispatch says a mob of citizens took a man from jail and hanged him; it gives no name or account of how the jailers responded.
Reported by: Sacramento Daily Record-Union news dispatch (reporters).