Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was one of four men held in the Amite jail when a crowd of about fifty men came for him. According to The Abbeville Press and Banner, which reported it on January 14, 1880, the crowd took him out of the jail and shot him to death. The jail was responsible for holding him, and a mob took him from its custody and killed him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.