Barker

Barker was held in the watch house and then the jail in Lexington, Kentucky, after an incident at the Market House. According to a local account printed in the True American on July 21, 1858, a group of citizens took him from the jail to the Court House yard on July 17, 1858, and hanged him from a temporary scaffold. The paper reports that the first rope broke and he fell about thirty feet before he was hanged again.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Lexington newspaper account reports that a group of citizens took Barker from the jail to the Court House yard and hanged him from a temporary scaffold.

Reported by: Lexington newspaper account (True American, reprinting local news) (reporters).

Source

• True American, July 21, 1858, page 2 True American, July 21, 1858