Name not reported

According to the Morristown Gazette, four Black people were taken from a Tennessee jail and shot dead. The Gazette, writing on October 21, 1874, disputed a state attorney general's report, quoted in the Union and American, which had said sixteen people were hanged after being taken from jail. The paper said that figure was false, and that two others were wounded and ten escaped unhurt.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). The Morristown Gazette disputes the attorney general's report that sixteen prisoners were hanged after being taken from jail, saying four Black prisoners were shot dead instead.

Reported by: The Morristown Gazette (reporters); Attorney General Murray.

Source

• The Morristown Gazette, October 21, 1874, page 2 The Morristown Gazette, October 21, 1874