Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Nashville newspaper reprinted in the Chicago Tribune in April 1868, a mob took an unnamed man from a jail near Columbia, Tennessee, and hanged him. The account says nothing about his name or his life, and gives no exact date for the killing. The Nashville Press and Times is the source for this claim, which was made about a man who had been held in custody when the mob came for him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Nashville Press and Times reported that a mob took the man from a jail near Columbia, Tennessee and hanged him.
Reported by: Nashville Press and Times (reporters).