Died in jail or a lockup
One of 4 people whose names were not reported
A Black man was one of three men taken from the Memphis jail by a mob of about seventy-five people in the early hours of March 9, 1892. According to a newspaper report, the mob got in by posing as officers bringing in a prisoner and bound the night watchman before taking the men to an open field near the river. There they were shot.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about seventy-five people took him from the Memphis jail, bound the night watchman and shot him in an open field near the river.
Reported by: news reports.