Name not reported
A Black man whose name is not known was taken from the jail in Greene County, Mississippi, by a mob and killed on the night of Wednesday, May 25, 1927, at Botwell. Sheriff McLeci confirmed the lynching to the New Britain Herald and said the man had been held in the jail where he was taken. The sheriff's account of how the mob got in, and whether jail staff resisted or handed over the keys, is not in the report. Telephone lines to the area were down after floods, so the paper had few other details.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Sheriff McLeci of Greene County confirmed that a man was taken from the jail where he was held and lynched at Botwell.
Reported by: Sheriff McLeci, Greene County, Mississippi (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.