Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail at Coppsville, Mississippi, was taken from it by a mob on the night of Friday, July 31, 1868, and hanged, according to a New York wire report printed in the Vermont Daily Transcript on August 5. The state held this person in that jail, and the mob took them from its custody and killed them. They were hanged by a mob outside any court while still in custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A New York wire dispatch reports that a mob took a second person from the jail in Coppsville, Mississippi, and hanged them.
Reported by: New York wire dispatch (reporters).