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, who acted under military organization, and were killed. The Tipton Advertiser reported on August 24, 1871 that a committee investigated these killings. The deaths are recorded here as a lynching from custody, in which the people were taken from the jail by a mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: the committee investigating the killings.