Died in jail or a lockup
Bess Brandon
Bess Brandon, a Black man, was held in the jail in Ballard County, Kentucky, in November 1872. According to a Louisville dispatch printed in the Chicago Daily Tribune, a mob of about seventy-five men forced the jail open, took him out, and hanged him from a tree on the outskirts of town. The men reportedly said they had come from Illinois.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody