Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Mississippi jail was seized from it by a mob, according to reports reprinted in the Deseret Evening News in 1908. The reports say a former United States senator roused the crowd and directed it to storm the jail, and that it took about three hours for the mob to reach him. They say he was shot, dragged some distance to a tree and hanged, and that his body was later mutilated.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Reports reprinted in the editorial say a mob stormed the Mississippi jail, shot the man, dragged him to a tree and hanged him.
Reported by: reports cited in the editorial.