Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Ten Black people held in a jail were taken out by several hundred Ku Klux Klan members acting under military organization, and all ten were killed. The Tipton Advertiser reported the killings in August 1871. A committee investigated the killings, the paper reported.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: committee investigating the killings.