Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
He was a Black man held in the jail at Trenton, in West Tennessee, and was one of sixteen Black men held there who were taken out by an armed, masked mob and killed. The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal, calls the killings a massacre. The men were being 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).