Died in jail or a lockup
F. Shelby
F. Shelby was being held in the jail at Wickliffe, Kentucky, when a mob of roughly one hundred unidentified men broke in around midnight on June 8, 1891. According to the Santa Fe Daily New Mexican, the men took Shelby from the jail and hanged them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about one hundred men broke F. Shelby out of the Wickliffe, Ky. jail and hanged him around midnight.
Reported by: news reports.