Died in jail or a lockup
Alfred Blount
Alfred Blount, a Black man, was held in the jail in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when a mob took him from the jail and hanged him from a bridge over the Tennessee River. The Chicago Eagle reported that a grand jury indicted ringleaders of the mob, some of them prominent men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Alfred Blount from a jail in Chattanooga and hanged him on a bridge over the Tennessee River, according to a grand jury's indictments of ringleaders reported in the article.
Reported by: grand jury.