Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In December 1918, a mob reportedly took four Black people, two of them women, from the jail at Shubata, Mississippi, and hanged them from the girders of a bridge over the Chickasauka River, according to a report received in Mobile, Alabama. The newspaper accounts give no names or ages for the four. The reports say the deaths occurred in December 1918 but do not describe how the mob reached the jail or what the jail's staff or sheriff did when it did.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody