Died in jail or a lockup
Logon Scott
Logon Scott, a Black man, was in the custody of the sheriff in Dyersburg, Tennessee, when a mob took him from the sheriff in early December 1917. According to a dispatch published in the Pensacola Journal, the mob tied him to an iron stake in the public square and burned him there. The dispatch is the only account cited for these events, and the mob's killing of him is the reported manner of death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Logon Scott from the sheriff in Dyersburg, Tennessee, tied him to an iron stake in the public square and burned him there.
Reported by: news reports.