Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
One of two men held in the town jail was taken from it by a mob on a Wednesday night in October 1874, and his name is not clearly recorded in the account. According to the Memphis Daily Appeal, the jailer and guards were present when the mob arrived, and the sheriff had left town. The mob carried 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. The paper reports that a mob took the man from the town jail while the jailer and guards were present and the sheriff was away, then killed him about three-quarters of a mile away.
Reported by: news reports.