Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five men held in a Memphis jail were taken from it by a group of masked men, according to a March 1892 report in The Osceola Times that drew on Memphis newspapers. The mob hanged the five men in the rail yards of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. The men died after being taken from the jail that was holding them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Osceola Times, reprinting Memphis newspapers, reports that a group of masked men took five men from a Memphis jail and hanged them in the rail yards.
Reported by: The Osceola Times, reporting on Memphis newspapers (reporters).