Hays Peebles
Hays Peebles, a Black man, was held in the Trenton jail when masked men took him out and killed him, according to the Public Ledger, which reports federal warrants charging the killings. A Knoxville Weekly Chronicle dispatch, reprinting an account of a mob that took ten men from a jail, lists him among those murdered and says his body was found in a river-bottom about a mile from town.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Masked men took Hays Peebles from the Trenton jail and killed him, according to federal warrants, and a Knoxville newspaper dispatch lists him among ten men a mob murdered after taking them from a jail.
Reported by: United States Government warrants (court); Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, reprinting a dispatch (reporters).