Sam Price
Sam Price was held at the jail in Clinton, Kentucky, when a group of men came for him in late February 1888. The Hickman Courier reported that about 40 to 50 men demanded the keys and that the jailer gave in to their numbers, while The Atlanta Constitution, citing a Cairo, Illinois dispatch, said the mob broke into the jail. According to the Constitution, Price and another man were taken from the jail and hanged from a sycamore tree, and their bodies were left until daylight before authorities took them down and buried them. A later dispatch reported that Price showed signs of life after being cut down and spoke briefly before the mob returned and hanged him again.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about fifty men broke into the Clinton jail, took Sam Price from the jail and hanged him; a later dispatch says he showed signs of life after being cut down before the mob hanged him again, and another account says the jailer gave up the keys under the mob's force.
Reported by: Cairo, Ill. special dispatch in The Atlanta Constitution (reporters).