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, and it does not say whether the jailer or any officers resisted the mob or handed the prisoners over. No other detail about the victims is given.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.