Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In December 1924, a mob took a Black man from the jail in Mississippi County, Missouri, and lynched him, according to a 1942 Sunday Chicago Bee article that recalls the killing as the last lynching in the region before the Sikeston case. The article gives no name for him and nothing else about who he was. It does not say whether the jail's officers resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.