Ozlas McGlmey
Ozlas McGlmey, a Black man, was held in the Fayetteville jail in Tennessee on November 29, 1895. The Omaha Daily Bee reported the next day that a mob of people from Lincoln and Marshall counties took him from the jail and hanged him. The paper said Governor Turney had called state guard troops to the area, and a telephone message reported at the time said the jail had been stormed and the prisoners lynched. The account of how the jail was entered comes from that telephone message.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telephone message reported that a mob stormed the Fayetteville jail and lynched the prisoners, after Governor Turney had called state guard troops.
Reported by: a telephone message reported in the accounts.