Name not reported

A Black man whose name is illegible in the damaged 1900 newspaper text was held in the custody of an officer at a state levee camp in Mississippi. According to a dispatch printed in The Portland Daily Press on April 17, 1900, a mob took him from the officer and hanged him. The dispatch does not say whether the officer resisted, gave up the man, or was overpowered.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The newspaper dispatch reports that a mob took the man from an officer at a state levee camp and hanged him.

Reported by: the newspaper dispatch.

Source

• The Portland Daily Press, April 17, 1900, page 3 The Portland Daily Press, April 17, 1900