Samuel Goodrich
Samuel Goodrich was one of several men held in the jail at Newcastle, Kentucky, in September 1877. According to the Iola Register, on the night of September 3 a mob of about 100 armed men took four men, Goodrich among them, from their cells and hanged them from the timbers of a bridge. Accounts differ on how many men were taken, with some papers saying three and others four. The papers do not say whether jail staff resisted the mob or handed over the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cincinnati dispatch reprinted in the Staunton Spectator says a mob took Samuel Goodrich from the Newcastle, Kentucky jail and hanged him, and a second account says the mob hung him after taking him from the jail.
Reported by: Cincinnati dispatch reprinted in the Staunton Spectator (reporters).