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 printed in the New Mexico State Record on December 27, 1918. The jail was holding them when the mob took them, so the four people were in that jail's custody when they were killed. The account describes the deaths in these terms alone.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire report datelined Mobile, Alabama (reporters).