Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In December 1918, according to a report received in Mobile, Alabama, and printed in newspapers, four Black people were held in the jail at Shubata, Mississippi. A mob took them from the jail, and two of the four were women. The mob hanged them from the girders of a bridge over the Chickasauka River. The accounts describe the four only as a group and do not name them.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody
Reported by: information received at Mobile, as reported by the newspaper (reporters).