Peter Klein
Peter Klein was held in the Newport jail in Kentucky in March 1879. On the evening of March 16, about twenty-five men marched to the jail, overpowered the jailer, knocked down two policemen and the mayor, and took him away, according to a Cincinnati dispatch printed in the Memphis Daily Appeal. The Interior Journal reported that the jailer handed over the keys, and that the crowd brought Klein to a woman who identified him before hanging him from a tree on the edge of town. A Cincinnati dispatch reported that his body was still hanging the next morning.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cincinnati newspaper dispatch reported that a mob of about twenty-five men overpowered the jailer, took Klein from the jail and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Cincinnati newspaper dispatch (reporters).