Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black men were held in a Memphis jail, and on March 9, 1892, a mob took them from it and shot them to death. Ida B. Wells, in an account printed in The Gazette in July 1894, wrote that the killings were carried out with the knowledge of the authorities. Her account describes the killings as a lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Ida B. Wells says three Black men were taken from a Memphis jail and shot to death in a lynching carried out with the knowledge of the authorities.
Reported by: Ida B. Wells (advocates).