Joe Bumpass
Joe Bumpass, a Black man, was held in the jail at Hickman, Kentucky, in late August 1904. Early on August 30, 1904, a mob took him from the jail, according to the Brunswick Daily News and the Hartford Republican, and killed him. The Hartford Republican reported that the mob gained entry by pretending to have a prisoner, told the jailer they had come for him, strangled him with a rope and threw his body into the Tennessee River. The Brunswick Daily News reported that he was drowned, and the accounts differ on the method.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). Accounts differ on the method: one says the mob drowned him, another says they strangled him with a rope before throwing him into the river.
Reported by: Nashville Banner, citing a special dispatch from Hickman, Ky. (reporters).