Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
He was one of sixteen Black men held in the jail at Trenton, in West Tennessee, when an armed, masked mob took them out and killed them. The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal in September 1874, called the killings a massacre. The men were being held to await trial, and the account describes the mob's attack, not any response by the jailer or sheriff.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked, armed mob took sixteen men from the Trenton jail and killed them, according to the Weekly Clarion reprinting the Memphis Appeal.
Reported by: The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal (reporters).