Louis Lafadolte

Louis Lafadolte was held in the jail at Burlington, Kentucky. According to a Cincinnati telegram printed in The Beatrice Daily Express, early on July 17, 1894, a mob took him from the jail, carried him about a mile into the woods and hanged him from a tree. The telegram does not say how the jail staff responded to the mob.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cincinnati special telegram to The Express reports that a mob took Louis Lafadolte from the Burlington, Kentucky jail and hanged him from a tree.

Reported by: Cincinnati special telegram to The Express (reporters).

Source

• The Beatrice Daily Express, July 17, 1894, page 4 The Beatrice Daily Express, July 17, 1894