Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two people held in the jail at Helenwood, Tennessee, were taken from it and lynched by a mob in June 1889, according to a brief item in the Mason County Journal. A short report in the Pullman Herald gives the same account of two people taken from the Helenwood jail and killed. Neither report gives the names, ages or other details of the two people. Neither says how the mob reached them, or whether the jailer or officers resisted, gave up the keys or handed the two people over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper report of the Helenwood, Tennessee lynching (reporters).