Deaths in Custody
Died in custody

Name not reported

died November 24, 1908 · Lake County, Tennessee

Three Black brothers, identified in a 1908 news report as the Stineback brothers, were arrested in Tiptonville, Tennessee, on the morning of November 24, 1908. That afternoon a mob took them and killed them in Tiptonville. Their deaths were reported in a newspaper two days later.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The news report says a mob lynched the three men the afternoon after their arrest in Tiptonville, but does not say where they were held.

Reported by: news report.

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