Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On Sunday night, September 11, 1881, a person held at the Owingsville jail was reportedly taken from the jail and hanged, according to the Knoxville Daily Chronicle, which printed the account three days later. The passage is short and damaged, and gives no name, age, or sex for the person. The accounts that have survived do not say who took them from the jail or whether jailers resisted, gave up the keys, or handed them over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A short, damaged 1881 newspaper passage reports that a person was taken from the Owingsville jail on Sunday night and hanged.
Reported by: news reports.