Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five men were being held in the Memphis jail when a group of masked men came for them. The mob took them from the jail and hanged them in the rail yards of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. Their deaths were a lynching carried out after they had been taken from the custody of the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: The Osceola Times, reporting on Memphis newspapers (reporters).