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Died in jail or a lockup

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died August 1870 · Monroe County, Mississippi

Colonel A. P. Huggins, in testimony recorded in the Ku Klux sworn statements and reported by The Du Quoin Tribune in October 1871, said that in August 1870 a gang of about fifty disguised men broke open the Monroe County jail in Mississippi. He said they took out the second son of Saunders Flint, a Black man who was being held there awaiting trial, along with his brother, and killed them. The sons are not named in the account.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Col. A. P. Huggins, in sworn testimony, says a disguised gang of about fifty broke open the jail and killed the Flint sons.

Reported by: Col. A. P. Huggins, sworn testimony in Ku-Klux sworn statements (witnesses).

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