Green Marshall
Green Marshall, a Black man, was held in the Shelby County jail when a mob of about fifty masked men broke in early on Sunday, January 15, 1911. According to The Bourbon News, the mob threatened to blow up the building with dynamite, and the jailer, Deputy Jailer Ernest Hornback, turned over the keys after resistance seemed useless. The mob took Green Marshall from the jail and hanged him, and his body was later found hanging from a bridge over the Eminence pike near the jail. The paper's account is the only source provided, and no family statements or other details about who Green Marshall was are included in it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Deputy Jailer Ernest Hornback said the mob took Green Marshall from the Shelby County jail and hanged him from a bridge, after the jailer turned over the keys.
Reported by: Ernest Hornback, Deputy Jailer (the agency that held him); newspaper report.