Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people, two of them women, were taken from the jail at Shuhuta, Mississippi, by a mob and lynched, according to a brief item in The Ordway New Era published December 27, 1918. The item gives no names or ages for the four people killed. It also does not say how the jailer or sheriff responded when the mob came for them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.