Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people, two of them women, were taken from the jail at Shuhuta, Mississippi, and lynched by a mob, 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 who died. It does not say whether the jailer or officers resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed the four over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.