Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five Black people held in a Tennessee jail were taken out by a large armed mob and killed, according to a short wire report in the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer published February 19, 1881. The report names none of them and gives no date for the killings. It does not say how the jail or its officers responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.