Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Franklin, Tennessee, was taken from custody by a mob on the night of April 29, 1891. According to a wire report published in the Morning Journal and Courier, the mob attacked the jail, overpowered the sheriff and took the keys before leading him to a covered bridge, where he was hanged and his body riddled with bullets. The account gives no name for him, as the name is garbled in the surviving copy, and it offers no further details about his life or about the sheriff's conduct beyond the keys being taken.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch from Franklin, Tennessee, reports that a mob took the man from the jail, hanged him and riddled his body with bullets.
Reported by: news dispatch from Franklin, Tenn., April 30 (reporters).