Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A person held in the jail at Kingston, Tennessee, was taken from the jail by a mob during the night and hanged, according to a short wire item in The Waco Daily Examiner published on October 28, 1885. The person is referred to here as they. The account gives the date of death only as October 27, 1885, from the paper's date line, and the name and the jailer's response are not clear from this garbled copy.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.