Name not reported
A Black man was being transported to the county jail near White Bluff, Tennessee, in November 1935, in the custody of a deputy sheriff and another official. According to the Omaha Guide, a mob of five armed men took him from the officers and shot him. The paper reported that the mob took the deputy's pistol, returned within half an hour, and told the officer they had shot the man with it. The paper also reported that the sheriff filed no charge against the men, who were to be taken to the county seat for arraignment.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A deputy sheriff said a mob of five armed men took the man from him and their officers while being transported to the county jail near White Bluff, Tennessee, and shot him.
Reported by: deputy sheriff. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.