Died in jail or a lockup
One of 2 people whose names were not reported
Two Black men, whose names the sources do not give, were in the custody of deputies in Quitman County, Mississippi, and were being taken toward the Clarksdale jail on June 8, 1934. A mob forcibly took them from the officers, and officials said both men were hanged from a railway trestle that night and found around midnight. Sheriff Haynes said his men were helpless before the mob. As of early Saturday, officials had made no arrests.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Sheriff Haynes said his deputies were helpless before the mob that took the prisoner from them.
Reported by: Sheriff Haynes and officials (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.