Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A band of about fifty railroad employees took one of three men out of a jail near Purvis, Mississippi, and hanged him from trees, according to a brief item in the Narragansett Herald in January 1885. The item gives his name and age as unknown. The account is limited to the mob's action, and the man's name remains unknown.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Narragansett Herald (reporters).