Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black people held at the jail in Winchester were taken out by a mob and killed in September 1871, according to a Nashville dispatch printed in The Weekly Democratic Statesman on October 5, 1871. The dispatch gives no names for the three. It does not say how the mob got into the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.