Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a wire item in The Columbus Courier published December 27, 1918, four Black people held in a Mississippi jail were taken out by a mob and lynched. The item does not give their names or the name of the jail. It also does not say when the killings happened, how the mob got in, or whether jail officers resisted or handed the prisoners over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: short wire item on this page.