Died in custody
Name not reported
A Black man surnamed Jackson, whose first name is illegible in the surviving 1907 newspaper text, died in June 1907. A mob seized him from a deputy sheriff who was bringing him in for safekeeping, and he was found hanging from a tree some distance from the place where he was taken. The town and state where this happened cannot be read in the surviving text.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Historical newspaper account (OCR text) (reporters).