Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On Friday night, July 31, 1868, a mob broke into the jail in Coppsville, Mississippi, took two people held there, and hanged them. The account comes from a brief New York wire dispatch published in the Vermont Daily Transcript on August 5, 1868. The dispatch describes the two people only as prisoners of the Coppsville jail who were seized and killed by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A New York wire dispatch reports that a mob took two people from a jail in Coppsville, Mississippi, and hanged them.
Reported by: New York wire dispatch (reporters).