Died in jail or a lockup
Sam Sheed
Sam Sheed, a Black man, was one of three people held in the Wickliffe jail in early September 1901. According to The Paducah Sun, about 10 o'clock one night a mob obtained the jail keys without resistance from those in charge, took the three men from the jail, and hanged them from a cross beam. The bodies were still hanging the next morning before they were cut down, and an inquest was held into the deaths. The newspaper attributes the killings to a group of friends of a man named Thomas.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.