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 by a mob and lynched, according to a brief item in the People and Patriot in October 1884. The item gives no names for them and no exact date for the killings. It does not say how the mob got into the jail or whether the jailers resisted, gave up the keys, or handed them over.

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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