The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Horrible affair

‘ We have received intelligence from a most reliable gentleman of Tennessee, who knows the fact, that Joseph G. Taylor, who killed Lieut. Davidson in this city several months and was discharged by an Examining Court, on the ground that three terms of the Court had passed and the Commonwealth was not prepared for trial, was hung on the evening of the 19th inst., by the friends and neighbors of Lt. Davidson. It seems that Taylor returned to his home, near Fayetteville, in Lincoln county, Tennessee, after his discharge from here, and the people of the neighborhood, of which Lt. D. was also a resident, determined to take the law in their own hands and execute summary vengeance, and at 4 o'clock, on the 19th, the unfortunate man was launched into eternity — the brother of Lt. Davidson adjusting the rope around his neck with his own hands.

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