Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Nashville dispatch in the Weekly Democratic Statesman, published October 5, 1871, reported that three Black people were taken from the jail at Winchester and killed in September 1871. The Winchester jail held them when a mob took them from custody and killed them. No names were reported for the three people. The reporting does not say how the mob got into the jail or whether the jailers resisted, gave up the keys, or handed the people over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Nashville dispatch (reporters).