Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a dispatch reprinted by the Knoxville Weekly Chronicle in September 1874, he was one of ten men a mob took from a jail. His body was found in a river-bottom about a mile from town. The dispatch counts him among those the mob murdered.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Knoxville Weekly Chronicle dispatch, reprinting an account, says a mob took him from a jail and murdered him.
Reported by: Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, reprinting a dispatch (reporters).