Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four people, two of them women, were taken from a jail in Mississippi and lynched by a mob, according to a wire report datelined Mobile, Alabama, and published in the New Mexico State Record on December 27, 1918. The people are not named in the report, which also gives no exact date for the killings. The jail or its officers are the custodians named by the lynching flag. Their names and lives are not recorded in this account, and the people are remembered here only as the four who were taken from custody and killed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire report datelined Mobile, Alabama (reporters).