Marshall Bosten
Marshall Bosten, a Black man, was held in the Frankfort jail in Kentucky on the evening of Tuesday, August 14, 1894. According to the Daily Public Ledger, a crowd gathered near the state house that night, and the paper's headline reports that a mob took him from custody and lynched him. The surviving archive copy breaks off before describing how the mob got into the jail or whether the jailer resisted, gave up the keys, or handed him over, so those details are not available from this source.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Daily Public Ledger reported that a mob took Marshall Bosten from the Frankfort jail and killed him, though the archived copy breaks off before describing the mob's actions.
Reported by: Daily Public Ledger, reporting from Frankfort, Ky. (reporters).