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Died in custody

Name not reported

died October 5, 1892 · Copiah County, Mississippi

On October 5, 1892, a mob in Copiah County, Mississippi, took two Black men from the officers holding them and killed them. The men had been in the custody of those officers at the time. A brief dispatch in The Morning Call reported the killings the following day.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report