Died in jail or a lockup
One of 7 people whose names were not reported
A Black man was one of three men taken from the Memphis jail by a mob of about seventy-five people in the early hours of March 9, 1892. According to a newspaper report, the mob got in by posing as officers bringing in a prisoner and bound the night watchman before taking the men to an open field near the river. There they were shot.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 75 people took three Black men from the Memphis jail and shot them, according to a Memphis dispatch reprinted in the Asheville Daily Citizen.
Reported by: Asheville Daily Citizen, citing a Memphis dispatch (reporters).