Died in jail or a lockup
James Dudley
James Dudley was held at the jail in Georgetown, Kentucky, when a group of men came for him shortly after midnight. According to a short 1891 news item in the Fisherman & Farmer, a mob took him from the jail and lynched him. The item gives no further account of his life or of how the jail's keepers responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.