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 give their names, ages, or backgrounds. It also does not say whether jail staff resisted the mob or handed the five over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.