Will Morris
Will Morris, a Black man, was being taken to town by deputy sheriffs in Mississippi on May 3, 1903, according to the Savannah Morning News, when about 200 armed farmers stopped the officers and demanded the prisoners. The deputies were forced to surrender Morris, and the paper reported he was hanged from the Yazoo bridge at Hayne's Bluff near Vicksburg before daylight. The deputy sheriff had pleaded that the law be allowed to take its course. The account is from a single 1903 newspaper report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Deputies were taking him to town when a mob of about 200 armed men seized him from the officers and hanged him from the Yazoo bridge at Hayne's Bluff near Vicksburg.
Reported by: news reports.