Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people, two of them women, were held in a Mississippi jail until a mob came for them, according to a wire report datelined Mobile, Alabama, and published December 27, 1918. The mob took all four from the jail and lynched them. Their deaths are recorded as lynchings from custody because the jail held them when they were taken.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire report datelined Mobile, Alabama (reporters).