Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name was not recorded was held in the Franklin County jail in Tennessee. Letters received in Washington, printed in the Charleston Daily News on January 20, 1869, say he was taken from the jail and hanged in its courtyard around the time of an election. The letters say that no one knew who committed the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Unnamed letters received in Washington, as printed in the paper, say a mob hanged a man taken from a Tennessee jail, and nobody knew who did it.
Reported by: unnamed letters received in Washington, as reported by the paper.