Bart Alexander
Alexander, a Black man, was held in the jail at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in December 1877. According to a Chicago Tribune dispatch from Nashville, about sixty mounted men came to the jail at midnight, and the jailer said he could not resist them and let them in. The men unlocked Alexander's cell, bound him, and took him about two miles out of town, where they hanged him from a white oak. The Tribune reported that his body was later found to have been shot many times.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about sixty men took Alexander from the Murfreesboro jail in December 1877 and hanged him; the Chicago Tribune dispatch says the jailer could not resist and let a detail of men in.
Reported by: Chicago Tribune special dispatch from Nashville (reporters).