Died in jail or a lockup
Wilson Arnold
Wilson Arnold, a Black man, was held in a jail in Mississippi in November 1888. A dispatch from Yazoo Cut, dated November 20, 1888, said that a mob, described as friends of Capt. Robert Johnson, took him from the jail. The dispatch said he had probably been lynched. A second newspaper account of the same events repeated that he was lynched.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper report says a mob of white and Black men took him from a Mississippi jail and he is supposed to have been lynched; a later dispatch says friends of Capt. Robert Johnson took him from jail and he had probably been lynched.
Reported by: newspaper report.