Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Trenton, West Tennessee, was one of sixteen Black men taken out of the jail by an armed, masked mob and killed. A report reprinted in The Weekly Clarion on September 3, 1874, from the Memphis Appeal called the killings a massacre, a description attributed to that paper. The men were held in the jail when the mob took them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal, says an armed, masked mob took sixteen men from the Trenton jail and killed them.
Reported by: The Weekly Clarion (reprinting the Memphis Appeal) (reporters).