Deaths in Custody
Executed

Henry Hardin

died June 16, 1864

Henry Hardin was taken from the jail and hanged on June 16, 1864, in what a 1900 Courier-Journal account described as a legal execution. That account names Thomas Bellows as the man who carried out the hanging. It places the jail at Charlestown as the old Clark County jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Clark County court (court).

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