Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people, two of them women, were taken from the jail at Shubata, Mississippi, by a mob in December 1918, according to a report received in Mobile, Alabama. The report says the mob hanged the four from the girders of a bridge over a river. The accounts describe the four only as a group.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody