Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Trenton, West Tennessee, jail was taken out by an armed, masked mob and killed, according to The Weekly Clarion, which reprinted an account from the Memphis Appeal in September 1874. The paper said he was one of sixteen Black men held at the jail who were taken out and killed in the same attack, and it called the killings a massacre. The men were being held to await trial. His name is not given in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal, reports that an armed, masked mob took sixteen Black men from the Trenton jail and killed them.
Reported by: The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal (reporters).