David Jones
David Jones, a Black man, was held in the Nashville jail in March 1872. Newspaper accounts report that a mob broke into the jail, shot him twice, and hanged him from a lamp-post on the public square. Police officers are said to have cut him down while he was still alive and taken him to the police station, and Sheriff Donaldson is reported to have pushed through the crowd to try to cut him down. His wounds were fatal, and accounts give the date of his death as March 24, 25 or 26, 1872.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. According to newspaper accounts, a mob broke into the Nashville jail, shot David Jones twice, and hanged him from a lamp-post on the public square.
Reported by: Little Rock Daily Republican (telegraph dispatch) (reporters); Nashville newspaper coverage (reporters).