Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a jail was taken from it by a mob and lynched in January 1888, according to a St. Louis dispatch reprinted in The Memphis Appeal on January 29, 1888. His name and the location of the jail are garbled in the printed text, so they cannot be identified. The dispatch says his death came a few weeks after a shooting in Alabama.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: St. Louis special dispatch reprinted in the Memphis Appeal (reporters).