Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name cannot be read reliably in the scanned 1874 page was taken from a town jail by a mob on a Wednesday night in October 1874. According to the Memphis Daily Appeal, the jailer and guards were present when the mob arrived, and the sheriff had left town. The mob took him about three-quarters of a mile from the jail and killed him there. The paper called the killing a lynching and said it should be punished.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took one of two men from the town jail in October 1874 while the jailer and guards were present and the sheriff was out of town, according to the newspaper.
Reported by: news reports.