Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name is garbled in the surviving 1874 text, was one of ten men a mob took from a jail. The Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, reprinting a dispatch, lists him among those the mob killed. His body was found in a river-bottom about a mile from town.
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, reprinting a dispatch (reporters).