Died in jail or a lockup
One of 2 people whose names were not reported
Two Black men being taken to the Brandon jail in Mississippi were in the custody of officers escorting them when a mob overpowered those officers, according to a Jackson, Mississippi dispatch printed by The Indianapolis Journal on October 6, 1892. The mob took the two men and hanged them. The officers were overpowered in the night before the dispatch was sent.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Jackson, Miss. news dispatch says a mob overpowered the officers escorting two men to the Brandon jail and hanged them.
Reported by: Jackson, Miss. news dispatch (reporters).