Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was held at the Amite jail, one of four men held there at the time. The Abbeville Press and Banner reported in January 1880 that a crowd of about fifty men took him from the jail and shot him to death. The crowd's act is recorded in that report as a killing carried out by a mob that came for him while he was in the jail's custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.