Bon

Bon, a Black man, was held in the Paris jail in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in early September 1866, after a confrontation on the fair grounds. According to a Louisville Courier account reprinted in the New York Dispatch, a mob of about fifty men, some of whom had been drinking, came to the jail at night, overpowered the jailer, took him out, killed him and threw his body into Stone creek.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Louisville Courier, as reprinted in the New York Dispatch, reported that a mob of about fifty men took Bon from the Paris jail and killed him.

Reported by: Louisville Courier (as reprinted in the New York Dispatch) (reporters).

Source

• New York Dispatch, September 23, 1866, page 6 New York Dispatch, September 23, 1866