Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Lincoln County Jail, Lincoln County, Mississippi

Four Black people held in the jail at Brookhaven, Mississippi, were taken out of it by a mob and killed, according to a brief item in the People and Patriot published in October 1884. The jail held them, and the mob took them from its custody. The killings were lynchings carried out after the mob seized them from the jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

People And Patriot, October 2, 1884, page 5 People And Patriot, October 2, 1884

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