Lowe
Lowe was a husband and father, and according to the Dispatch and the Lynchburg Daily Virginian he pleaded for his life and asked that his wife and children be considered. After he was shot during a street confrontation with a crowd at Hawesville, Kentucky, he was taken to the jail, where a judge stayed with him through the night. The Dispatch reports that on Wednesday, March 9, 1859, two men forced the jailer at pistol point to hand over the keys, entered the cell where Lowe lay wounded, and shot him dead, with a mob having been part of the attack. The Louisville Courier, as quoted by the Richmond Enquirer, says a grand jury found the men justified, while the Dispatch reports that the grand jury declined to indict anyone for the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Newspaper accounts, including the Louisville Courier and the Lynchburg Daily Virginian, say two men forced the jailer to hand over the keys, entered Lowe's cell while he lay wounded and shot him, and a reprinted Evansville letter says a mob broke into the jail.
Reported by: Louisville Courier (reporters); Lynchburg Daily Virginian (reporters); unnamed letter writer from Evansville, reprinted in the Louisville Courier.