Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three men held in a jail near Purvis, Mississippi, were taken from the building by a band of about fifty railroad employees after a train wreck killed the engineer and fireman, according to the Gloucester County Democrat. The mob hanged the three men from trees. The men are not named in the account, and the killing is dated only to 1885 by the paper's publication.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A band of about fifty railroad employees took three men from the Purvis, Miss., jail and hanged them from trees.
Reported by: news reports.