Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people were held in a Mississippi jail when a mob took them from its custody and killed them by lynching, according to a short wire item in The Columbus Courier in December 1918. The jail held these four people, and the mob took them from the jail and lynched them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: short wire item on this page.