Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a wire report datelined Nashville, Tennessee, June 7, 1889, a mob took two men from the Scott County jail in Tennessee and lynched them. The report was printed in The Morning News on June 8, 1889. Both men were held at the jail when the mob took them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Morning News reported, in a brief wire dispatch from Nashville, that a mob took two men arrested in Scott County from jail and lynched them.
Reported by: The Morning News (wire report datelined Nashville, Tenn., June 7) (reporters).