Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Mississippi jail was taken from the jail by people who were not identified, and they lynched him. His body was found early in the morning hanging from a telegraph pole in front of the depot, beside the body of another man. He was not named in the report, and his age is not given.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.