Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died September 28, 1871 · Franklin County, Tennessee

On September 28, 1871, a mob took several people out of the jail at Winchester, Tennessee, and hanged them, according to a brief telegraph dispatch printed the next day in the Daily State Journal. They were held in that jail when the mob came for them and killed them.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report