Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name was not recorded, was being taken in a wagon by officers to a jail in Pennsylvania on September 1, 1874, according to a dispatch in the Nashville Union and American. Masked men stopped the wagon, took him from the officers, and shot him many times, killing him. The dispatch identifies the death as caused by gunshot wounds.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: historical newspaper dispatch.