Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died July 3, 1883 · Mayorsville Jail, Mayorsville, Mississippi

A person held in the Mayorsville jail in Mississippi was taken from the jail by a mob and lynched on July 3, 1883, according to a short wire dispatch printed in the Salt Lake Herald under the heading The Mississippi Plan. The dispatch does not give the person's name, age, or sex. It also does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed the person over. The jail, which held this person, was where the mob reached them.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: a short wire dispatch printed under the heading The Mississippi Plan (reporters).

Source

The Salt Lake Herald, July 4, 1883, page 7 The Salt Lake Herald, July 4, 1883

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