Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In August 1875 a Black man being held in the jail at Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, was taken from the jail by a mob and killed, according to a brief telegraph dispatch from Cincinnati published in the American Citizen. The dispatch, datelined August 7, reported that citizens were arming. A later report said order had been restored.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief 1875 telegraph report says a man was taken from the jail and killed, without saying how the mob got in or whether officers resisted.
Reported by: telegraph report datelined Cincinnati (reporters).