James Truxhill
James Truxtill was arrested and held by officers at Somerset, Kentucky, in November 1883. According to a Memphis Daily Appeal dispatch, a mob took him from the officers and hanged him from the Cincinnati Southern railroad bridge over the Cumberland River on November 10. Other papers report a hanging from the same bridge but give November 11 as the date and spell his name Touxtill or Truxhill. None of the accounts say whether the officers resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over, and no official response is recorded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took James Truxtill from officers and hanged him from the Cincinnati Southern railroad bridge over the Cumberland River, according to a Memphis Daily Appeal dispatch from Somerset, Kentucky.
Reported by: Memphis Daily Appeal (Somerset, Ky., dispatch) (reporters).