Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was held at a county jail in Tennessee, one of three Black men held there at the time. According to a dispatch dated November 28, 1908, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him in front of a church. The account was published in the Ketchikan Miner on December 5, 1908.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1908 dispatch says a frenzied mob took him from a county jail in Tennessee and hanged him in front of a church.
Reported by: news reports.