Died in jail or a lockup
Henry Kilburn
Henry Kilburn was held in the jail at Jackson, Kentucky, in April 1884. The Daily Republican reported that a group of fifty masked men took him from the jail on the night of Wednesday, April 16, and lynched him. A Sacramento Daily Record-Union dispatch of April 16 said a mob had taken two people from the Jackson jail on the night of Monday, April 14, and hanged them, without giving names. The two accounts differ on the date and on the number of people taken.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about fifty masked men took Henry Kilburn from the Jackson, Kentucky jail and lynched him, according to a newspaper report that gives no account of how jail staff responded.
Reported by: news reports.