Joe Reed
Joe Reed was being held in the jail in Nashville, Tennessee, when a mob broke in on April 30, 1875, and took him to the river bridge. According to an unattributed report reprinted by the Marietta Journal, the mob put a rope around his neck and hanged him, and when the rope broke he fell onto the rocks below and was killed. The report's account attributes the death to the mob, which is how the paper described it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Marietta Journal, reprinting an unattributed report, says a mob took Joe Reed from the Nashville jail, hanged him from the river bridge, and he was killed when the rope broke and he fell to the rocks.
Reported by: Marietta Journal, reprinting an unattributed report (reporters).