Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An unnamed Black man, one of three men taken to a county jail in Tennessee, was taken from the jail by a mob on November 28, 1908, and hanged in front of a church, according to a dispatch printed in The Ketchikan Miner. The dispatch gives no name or age for him. The account describes the mob as frenzied but does not say who guarded the jail or whether the jailers resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.