sentences:  The county magistrate and two other men from Maury County abducted Cheek from Nashville, where he was staying with relatives near Fisk University, took him back to the county, and turned him over to a lynch mob.The mob mutilated the youth and murdered him by hanging.Cordie Cheek lived with his parents in Glendale, a small community just south of the county seat of Columbia in Maury County.