Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people, two of them women, were reportedly taken by a mob from the jail at Shubata, Mississippi, in December 1918 and hanged from the girders of a bridge over the Chickasauka river, according to a report received in Mobile, Alabama, and printed in several newspapers. The reports name none of the four, so this account cannot be tied to any one named person. The jailers' part in the seizure is not recorded in these accounts.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody
Reported by: information received at Mobile, as reported by the newspaper (reporters).