Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
He was a Black man held in the jail at Trenton, West Tennessee, before trial. According to a reprint of the Memphis Appeal in The Weekly Clarion of September 3, 1874, an armed, masked mob took him from the jail and killed him, along with fifteen other Black men held there. The reprint describes the killings as a massacre. 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 the men from the Trenton jail and killed them.
Reported by: The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal (reporters).