Clem Crowdus
Clem Crowdus was one of three men held in the Lebanon county jail in Kentucky. According to a Louisville Journal correspondent, reported in the Daily National Intelligencer on December 1, 1866, an armed mob surrounded the jail late on Saturday, November 24, and broke in, forcing the jailer to surrender the keys. The mob marched the men out of the dungeon toward Grimes's Hill, where they were hanged on November 25, 1866. The account gives no account of what the jailer did beyond surrendering the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Louisville Journal correspondent reports that an armed mob broke into the Lebanon county jail, forced the jailer to surrender the keys, and hanged Clem Crowdus and two other men on Grimes's Hill.
Reported by: Louisville Journal correspondent (reporters).