Name not reported

Two Black men held at a jail near Crawford, Mississippi, were taken from the jail by a crowd and hanged from a tree, according to a short item in The Abbeville Press and Banner published January 13, 1886. The men were in the custody of the jail when the crowd took them. Their names and ages are not known from this account.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper item reports that a crowd took the men from a jail near Crawford, Mississippi, and hanged them from a tree.

Reported by: the newspaper report.

Source

• The Abbeville Press And Banner, January 13, 1886, page 6 The Abbeville Press And Banner, January 13, 1886