Joe Robinson
Joe Robinson was held at the Fayetteville jail in Tennessee in late November 1895 while being moved by train toward Tracy City. According to a Nashville dispatch printed in The News & Observer, sympathizers of a Marshall County mob stopped the train at Fayetteville over the protests of leading citizens and forced it onto a siding, and the sheriff then placed the prisoners in the jail. A mob drawn from Lincoln and Marshall counties took Joe from the jail and hanged him on November 29, 1895. The sheriff had telegraphed for state troops, which arrived too late to stop the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telephone report to state officials said a mob hanged Joe Robinson after taking him from the Fayetteville jail, and a Nashville dispatch says the sheriff placed the prisoners in the jail before a mob took them from it.
Reported by: telephone report received by state officials; Nashville dispatch published in The News & Observer (reporters).