Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Memphis jail was taken from it on the night of Saturday, July 22, 1893, by a mob, according to the Savannah Courier. The crowd hanged him from a telegraph pole in Memphis. The paper reports that the sheriff and his officials stood by and made no effort to stop the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Memphis newspaper reports that a crowd took the man from the jail and hanged him from a telegraph pole, and that the sheriff and his officials made no effort to stop it.
Reported by: news reports.