Bolivar County MsArchives Obituaries.....Koonce, Taneya 1901
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St. Petersburg Times Newspaper, August 8, 1901
NEGRO LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI - Jesse PHILLIPS, the negro who shot and killed 
Lucius REED, a plantation manager in Cleaveland, Mississippi last Tuesday, was 
captured in the swamps near Cleveland and lynched by a mob of unknonwn men.  
PHILLIPS was discovered in the swamps by the bloodhounds, and while attempting to 
escape from a possee was shot in the leg.  An officer took the negro in charge and 
started for Cleveland to place him in jail.  About a mile from town a mob met the 
officer, took the negro from him, brought him to the spot where REED was killed 
and hanged him to a telephone pole.  So quietly was the negro hanged that the 
majority of the inhabitants of Cleveland did not know when the lynching occurred.

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