Roper, alias McGehee
According to a Nashville report reprinted in the Van Buren Press, a man named Roper, also called McGehee, was held in the jail in Columbia, Tennessee, when a mob took him out on the morning of November 27, 1877. The report says the crowd made several attempts to lynch him where he stood before a committee of twenty brought him before a woman named in the account. He was then taken to the Court House and hanged from its third story in front of about 2,000 people. The account gives no details about the jail staff's response to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Nashville dispatch reprinted in The American says a mob took Roper, also called McGehee, from the Columbia, Tennessee jail and lynched him from the Court House's third story.
Reported by: The American (reprinting a Nashville report) (reporters).