Died in custody
Name not reported
An unnamed Black man was held by a deputy at Elizabeth station in Mississippi. A newspaper report from April 1905 says that on April 2, a group of masked men took him from the deputy while they were on a train and killed him. The report describes the killing briefly, and it is the only account of his death that has been found.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.