Duncan
George Duncan, a Black man, was held in the jail in Brookville, Bracken County, Kentucky. According to a Cincinnati correspondent quoted in the Chicago Tribune, disguised, armed men took him from the jail on the Sunday night of December 24, 1871, and hanged him from a tree about a mile and a half from Brooksville. The Fremont Weekly Journal, reporting in January 1872, says fifty-two armed men took him from the jail and hanged him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cincinnati correspondent reports that disguised, armed men took George Duncan from the Brookville jail on a Sunday night and hanged him from a tree, and the account gives no account of how jail staff responded.
Reported by: Cincinnati correspondent (reporters).