Died in jail or a lockup
One of 2 people whose names were not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Clarksville was taken from the jail and hanged during the night of November 4, 1878, according to a telegraph report in the Memphis Daily Appeal. The report gives no name for him and does not say who took him from the jail. The account is a single line and does not describe whether the jailer or sheriff resisted, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: telegraph dispatch.