Died in jail or a lockup
Kendall
Kendall was being held in the Martinsburg jail when, at midnight, a masked group of about five hundred men calling themselves the Regulators came for him. They took him and another prisoner from the jail and hanged both from a walnut tree in the courthouse yard. The group said it acted "by command of Judge Lynch," and The Bee reported that no effort was made to bring those responsible to justice.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked group calling itself the Regulators, acting 'by command of Judge Lynch,' took Kendall from the Martinsburg jail and hanged him.
Reported by: the Regulators, a masked group that said its act was 'by command of Judge Lynch'; news reports.