Died in custody
Name not reported
According to a Memphis Daily Appeal editorial of September 16, 1882, an unnamed person was killed in a railway train incident near Madison. The editorial said this death came in the same incident as another killing, and it condemned both as lynch law. The editorial described the killings as recent, placing them shortly before its publication.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined. A newspaper editorial calls the killings lynch law, but the account does not say who held the person or how the mob reached them.
Reported by: newspaper editorial.