Died in custody
Name not reported
A Black man held in the custody of a sheriff's posse at Kale's Point, Tennessee, was taken by an armed mob and hanged, according to a short wire report in The Lake County Times published on October 30, 1906. The report gives no name for him, which appears only in garbled text. It says the mob seized him from the posse, and does not say whether the officers resisted, gave up the keys or handed him over. The hanging is described in the report as having happened in October 1906.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.