Died in custody
Name not reported
A man being transported by train under a deputy's custody was taken from the deputy at Elizabeth Station, Mississippi, by a masked group of men, according to a Picayune dispatch from Vicksburg reprinted by the Montgomery Advertiser in March 1905. The dispatch reports that the men hanged him. The account comes from this single newspaper dispatch and has not been independently verified.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Picayune dispatch from Vicksburg, reported by the Montgomery Advertiser, says a masked group of men took him from a deputy at Elizabeth Station and hanged him.
Reported by: The Picayune's Vicksburg special, as reported by the Montgomery Advertiser (reporters).