Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On April 18, 1931, a mob took a Black man from a jail in Tennessee, where he was being held, and hanged him in the courthouse yard. The Indianapolis Times reported the killing in an editorial published April 20, 1931. He was taken from the jail by the mob and killed in public at the courthouse. This was a lynching from custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: The Indianapolis Times editorial (reporters).