Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a jail was taken from it by about fifty masked men and hanged the night before, according to a Western Associated Press dispatch datelined Chattanooga and printed in the Las Vegas Daily Gazette on October 11, 1883. The accounts of the death come from that single dispatch. The mob's killing of him is the only event the dispatch describes.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Western Associated Press dispatch from Chattanooga says fifty masked men took a man from a jail and hanged him.
Reported by: Western Associated Press dispatch from Chattanooga (reporters).