Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man whose name the dispatch does not give was taken from a jail at night by about 50 masked men and hanged, according to a wire dispatch datelined Chattanooga and printed in the Bismarck Tribune on October 12, 1883. The dispatch gives the date of death as October 9, 1883, and describes the death as a mob killing. The jail that held him is not named in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire dispatch datelined Chattanooga (reporters).