Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a correspondent for the Memphis Appeal, reprinted in the Gold Hill Daily News on February 2, 1869, five men were taken from a jail by a crowd of citizens and shot to death. The correspondent, writing from Byersburg, said nearly all the citizens took part and that no attempt was made to disguise the killings. The account gives no names for the men and does not say how the jailers or officers responded to the crowd.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Appeal's Byersburg correspondent reports that a crowd of citizens took five men from a jail and shot them to death.
Reported by: The Appeal's Byersburg correspondent (Memphis Appeal) (reporters).