Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was being taken to jail in Jackson, Mississippi, in July 1895 when a mob seized him from the officers escorting him and hanged him from a tree, according to The Herald. The report gives no name or age for him. The jail was the custody he was in when the mob took him from the officers.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.