Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A crowd took two men from a jail near Crawford, Mississippi, and hanged them from a tree, according to the Abbeville Press and Banner, which published the account on January 13, 1886. One of the two men, a Black man, was being held in the jail when the crowd took him from it and killed him. The account describes his killing as a lynching carried out by a mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.