Died in jail or a lockup
Joe Gilland
Joe Gilland was held in the Pulaski County jail at Somerset, Kentucky. Early on Tuesday, September 15, 1891, a crowd surrounded the jail, took the key from the jailer, and dragged him from the building. According to the account, a mob hanged him from a sycamore tree about a hundred yards away. The newspaper presents the killing as the work of a lynching party and reports no action by the sheriff's office to stop it, and no statement from his family appears in the article.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: the newspaper account.