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 published the next day in The Daily Gazette. The men were being held at that jail when the mob took them. The dispatch describes the killings as the mob's act, carried out after the men were taken from state custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch reported that a mob forcibly took five men from the jail and lynched them.
Reported by: special dispatch.