Died in jail or a lockup
Jonathan Howerton
Jonathan Howerton, a 35-year-old man, was held in a Kentucky jail shortly before his death. Around midnight on May 16, 1895, a mob of 30 or 40 men took him from the jail and hanged him from a beam in a slaughter house. The Hopkinsville Kentuckian reported that he died of strangulation. A headline in that paper says a jailer tried to fool the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.