Died in jail or a lockup
Barker
Barker was held in the Lexington jail after a confrontation at the market house in which, according to the Memphis Daily Appeal, he stabbed City Marshal Joseph Beard, who died. Citizens took him from the jail, marched him to the court house yard and hanged him from a temporary scaffold at a court house window on or about July 10, 1858. The first rope broke, and he fell about thirty feet before being hanged again.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.