Died in custody
George Moore
George Moore, a Black man, was held in the custody of Sullivan County, Indiana. On the night of November 20, 1902, a mob took him from the officers holding him and hanged him from a telegraph pole about a mile from John Lemon's farm near Sullivan. The Paducah Sun reported that the governor declared the sheriff's office vacant under Indiana law because the prisoner in the sheriff's full charge was lynched.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.