Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five people held in the Nashville, Tennessee jail in 1880 were taken from it by a mob and lynched on the courthouse veranda, according to a column in The New Haven Union published in 1906 that recalled those events. The column does not give their names, ages, or any further details about them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.