Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On the evening of February 18, 1881, a mob forcibly took five Black men from the jail in Springfield, Tennessee, and lynched them, according to a special dispatch printed in The Daily Gazette the following day. The dispatch does not name the men. It describes the killings as the work of the mob that broke into the jail, and it does not say whether the jailer resisted or handed over the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: special dispatch.