Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Shelby County, Tennessee

Five men held at a Memphis jail were taken from the building by a group of masked men and hanged in the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad yards, according to an Osceola Times account published in March 1892 that reprinted Memphis newspapers. Their names and ages are not given in this account.

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

Reported by: The Osceola Times, reporting on Memphis newspapers (reporters).

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