Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Mississippi jail was taken from it by a mob, as a dispatch published in October 1907 reported. The mob also took two other Black men from the jail that night. According to the dispatch, he was shot with buckshot while trying to escape, and his body was later found in the woods. The dispatch does not give his name or age.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch says he was shot with buckshot while trying to escape from a jail, then found dead in the woods after a mob took three Black men from custody.
Reported by: news reports.