Name not reported
According to an Associated Press dispatch datelined Mobile and published in December 1918, an angry mob broke into the jail at Shubutz, Mississippi, where the Black man was held, and took him out and strung him up to a tree. The sheriff, the dispatch says, was unable to summon aid before the mob forced its way in. The victim is not named in the report, and the report describes three other Black people held in the jail who were also taken by the mob, two of them women.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Associated Press reported that an angry mob took four Black people from the Shubutz, Mississippi jail and strung them up to a tree after the sheriff could not summon aid.
Reported by: The Associated Press (reporters).