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 and hanged in the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad rail yards, according to a March 1892 report in The Osceola Times that drew on Memphis newspapers. The men were not named in the report, and it did not describe how the jail staff responded to the mob. The Osceola paper used the killings to comment on mob violence in Tennessee.
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 Chesapeake and Ohio rail yards.
Reported by: The Osceola Times, reporting on Memphis newspapers (reporters).