Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Frank Hughes

Scott County, Kentucky

Frank Hughes was held in the jail at Georgetown, Kentucky. According to a newspaper report published in September 1891, a mob took him from that jail and hanged him. He died while in the custody of the jail, and the mob, not the jail's staff, is named in the account as the people who killed him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

News report