Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This man's name is not given in the account. He was one of sixteen Black men held in the jail at Trenton, West Tennessee, when an armed, masked mob took them from the jail and killed them, according to a report reprinted in The Weekly Clarion from the Memphis Appeal. The paper called the killings a massacre. He was being held to await trial.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took the men from the Trenton jail and killed them, as reported by the Weekly Clarion reprinting the Memphis Appeal.
Reported by: The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal (reporters).