Died in jail or a lockup
Wyatt Mallory
Wyatt Mallory, also reported as Watt Mallory, was a Black man held in custody at Springfield, Tennessee, in April 1901. According to the Houston Daily Post, about 100 men forced their way into the courthouse where he was held, took him from the officers guarding him, and hanged him from the courthouse veranda. That paper reported that the officers did not resist, that each man in the group fired a shot into his body, and that the group's leader told the others to leave the body until morning. The Evening Bulletin reported that he was taken from the Springfield jail and lynched. Papers date his death to April 23 or 24, 1901.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: The Evening Bulletin (reporters).