Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Ivan Shelby

Ballard County, Kentucky

Ivan Shelby was taken from a jail at Wickliffe, Kentucky, and lynched, according to a brief item in The Hickman Courier published June 30, 1893. The item does not say how the mob reached him or whether the jailers resisted or handed him over.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: Kentucky newspaper item (reporters).

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