Hall Douglas

Hall Douglas, a Black man, was being held in the jail at Wickliffe, Kentucky, when a mob took him from the jail early one morning in October 1903. The mob hanged him from a tree. The Salt Lake Herald reported that fears of a race riot followed the killing, and that Black residents had left the nearby town of Kevil the previous week. The newspaper's text is hard to read in places, so the spelling of his name in the original account is uncertain.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Hall Douglas from the jail in Wickliffe, Kentucky, and hanged him from a tree, according to the newspaper account.

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• The Salt Lake Herald, October 17, 1903, page 5 The Salt Lake Herald, October 17, 1903