Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a jail near Muscle Shoals, Tennessee, was taken out by a mob and hanged, according to a brief item in the Farmer and Mechanic newspaper of May 2, 1883. The item does not give his name or the exact date of his death. It also does not say whether the jail's officers resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.