Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five men were taken from a Memphis jail by a group of masked men, according to The Osceola Times, which reprinted Memphis newspaper accounts from March 1892. The mob hanged them in the rail yards of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. The men are not named in the account, and it does not say whether jail officials resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Osceola Times, reporting on Memphis newspapers, says a group of masked men took five men from a Memphis jail and hanged them in the rail yards.
Reported by: The Osceola Times (reporters).