Died in jail or a lockup
Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor, a Black man, was held at the Franklin jail in Tennessee. According to a Nashville dispatch published in the Daily Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle, a mob came to the jail on Wednesday night, April 29, 1891, overpowered the sheriff and took the keys. The mob then took Jim Taylor from the jail and hanged him from the crossbeam of an overhead bridge on the Murfreesboro pike. The dispatch said the mob members were mostly mounted.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Nashville dispatch reported that a mob overpowered the sheriff at the Franklin jail, took the keys, and hanged Jim Taylor from a bridge on the Murfreesboro pike.
Reported by: Nashville dispatch published in the Daily Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle (reporters).