Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was held in a jail when a mob took him from it and killed him, one of ten men the mob seized from that jail. His body was found in a river-bottom about a mile from town. A dispatch reprinted by the Knoxville Weekly Chronicle in September 1874 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 killed him.
Reported by: Knoxville Weekly Chronicle (reporters).