Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This man was one of sixteen Black men held in the jail at Trenton, in West Tennessee, when an armed, masked mob came for them. According to The Weekly Clarion, which reprinted an account from the Memphis Appeal, the mob took him from the jail and killed him, and the paper called the killings a massacre. The men had been held to await trial.
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 men from the Trenton jail and killed them.
Reported by: The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal (reporters).