Died in custody
Name not reported
A Black man was in the custody of a deputy while travelling by train when a masked group of men reportedly took him from the deputy at Elizabeth station. According to a Picayune's Vicksburg dispatch reprinted in the Birmingham Age-Herald in March 1905, the men strung him up before the train reached the station. The account has not been independently verified.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Picayune dispatch reported that a masked group of men took him from a deputy while he was travelling by train and strung him up before the train reached the station.
Reported by: The Picayune's Vicksburg special (reporters).