Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An 18-year-old man, whose name is not legible in the surviving 1908 newspaper text, was held at the Pulaski jail in Pulaski, Tennessee, in May 1908. The Montgomery Advertiser reported that a mob of about 300 men broke into the jail and, despite the sheriff's protest, took him to a bridge and hanged him, then fired several shots into his body. The sheriff is reported to have protested the seizure, and the paper's account is the only source for these events. The article's version of how the mob took him comes from a single historical newspaper report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.