Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man whose name is not legible in the surviving 1883 newspaper text was held in the jail at Mendville, Mississippi. A crowd took him from custody and hanged him, according to a brief item published in the Middlebury Register in April 1883. The item gives no date for the killing and does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched