Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Trenton, Tennessee jail for safekeeping was taken from the jail by a mob around 1 a.m. on June 23, 1896, and hanged from a tree about a mile from town. The Sun of Nashville, in a special dispatch from Trenton, reported that the mob came from Weakley County and was not masked. The jailer and night police were reported to have known of the lynching. The paper said some members of the mob were known and that indictments would follow at the next term of court.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Sun of Nashville reported that a mob took the man from the Trenton, Tennessee jail and hanged him from a tree about a mile from town.
Reported by: The Sun (Nashville) (reporters).