Died in jail or a lockup
John Breckinridge
John Breckinridge was held in a jail near Carlisle, Kentucky, when a mob took him out and hanged him from a tree beyond the city limits on July 14, 1879, according to a Cincinnati dispatch printed in the Chicago Daily Tribune. The Indiana State Sentinel reports that the mob forced its way into the jail early in the morning before carrying him out. The dispatch says he denied his guilt to the last.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cincinnati dispatch to the Chicago Daily Tribune reports that a mob took him from a jail near Carlisle, Kentucky, and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Cincinnati dispatch to the Chicago Daily Tribune (reporters).