Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Columbia, Tennessee, was taken from custody by a mob and killed, according to a short June 1891 note in the Crittenden Press. The newspaper's text is garbled, so his name cannot be read reliably, and the note does not give the date of the lynching. It does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.