Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was one of ten men a mob took from a jail and killed. He had been held at that jail, and his body was later found in a river bottom about a mile from town. A reprinted dispatch in the Knoxville Weekly Chronicle lists him among those the mob murdered.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Knoxville Weekly Chronicle dispatch, reprinting a report, says a mob took him from a jail and murdered him.
Reported by: Knoxville Weekly Chronicle (reporters).