K. James

K. James was one of three men held in the jail at Newcastle, Kentucky, in September 1877. According to a Cincinnati dispatch of September 4, 1877, reprinted by The Weekly Elko Independent, a mob took the three men from the jail the night before and hanged them. The dispatch does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed over the keys.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took K. James from the jail at Newcastle, Kentucky, and hanged him, according to a Cincinnati dispatch of September 4, 1877.

Reported by: Cincinnati dispatch (newspaper report) (reporters).

Source

• The Weekly Elko Independent, September 9, 1877, page 2 The Weekly Elko Independent, September 9, 1877