Heck Williams
Heck Williams, a Black man, was being held at the Lebanon jail in Lebanon, Kentucky, when a group of men from Adair county came to the jail at night. According to the account, the jailer let them in and handed Williams over to them. The men put him on a horse and rode away, and that morning his body was found hanging from a tree limb near Campbell-Seville. Accounts of the night's events and who was involved are reported only in this one newspaper item from 1892.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Four men from Adair County took Heck Williams from the Lebanon jail at night after the jailer handed him over, and his body was found hanging from a tree limb near Campbell-Seville.
Reported by: the jailer at the Lebanon jail (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.