Died in jail or a lockup
Harlem Buckles
Harlem Buckles, a Black man, was held in the jail at Elizabethtown, Kentucky. In the early hours of Sunday, November 16, 1902, a mob took him from the jail. The mob marched him barefoot to the courthouse yard, where they hanged him from a limb. His death was a lynching carried out by a mob that took him from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Harlem Buckles from the Elizabethtown jail and hanged him in the courthouse yard.
Reported by: news reports.