Bob McSpadden
Bob McSpadden, a Black man, was held in the Tiptonville jail in Tennessee in September 1910. When a crowd gathered in the town, the sheriff and a constable moved him and another Black man out of town, and the crowd followed them. About a hundred men took the two men from the officers at gunpoint and hanged them from a tree in the bottom land near Tiptonville.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about a hundred men took McSpadden from the sheriff and a constable at gunpoint after they had moved him out of Tiptonville, and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Tiptonville jail sheriff and constable (account as summarized in the record) (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.