Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On the night of January 27, 1870, a group of men took five Black men from the jail in Nashville, where they were being held, and shot them. The names of the five men are not given in the surviving account, so each is remembered here only as one of the five. The account describes the killings in a short item reprinted in a newspaper, and it reports no further details about the men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Chronicling America newspaper reprint (OCR text) (reporters).