Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in 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 published by The Ketchikan Miner on December 5, 1908. The dispatch does not give his name or age. It also does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1908 dispatch reports a frenzied mob took him from a county jail in Tennessee and hanged him in front of a church.
Reported by: news reports.