Died in jail or a lockup
Jack Bell
Jack Bell, a Black man, was held in the Springfield jail in Springfield, Kentucky, according to a September 1880 report in The Daily Gazette. The paper reported that a mob of about one hundred men took him from the jail and killed him by hanging. A later Nashville dispatch reported that two men were hanged about seven miles from Springfield. The article does not explicitly link Bell to that hanging.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch from Springfield, Ky. reported that a mob of about one hundred men took Jack Bell from the Springfield jail and hanged him.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch from Springfield, Ky. (reporters).