Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In 1880, five people held in the Nashville, Tennessee jail were taken by a mob and lynched on the veranda of the courthouse, according to a short 1906 newspaper column recalling those events. The column does not name any of the five. It does not say how the mob got them out of the jail or whether jail staff resisted or handed them over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.