Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four people, two of them women, were taken from a jail in Mississippi and lynched, according to a wire report published in the New Mexico State Record on December 27, 1918. The report is datelined Mobile, Alabama. The names of those killed are not given. The killings were carried out by a mob that took them from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire report datelined Mobile, Alabama (reporters).