Died in jail or a lockup
Samuel Ramsay
Samuel Ramsay was held in the Owingville jail in Kentucky when, according to a Louisville dispatch printed in the Daily Los Angeles Herald, a mob took him from the jail on the night before the report and hanged him. The dispatch does not say how the mob got into the jail or whether the jailer resisted or handed over the keys. It is the newspaper's account that he had earlier been in prison and was jailed at Owingville over the killing of a young farmer, and the paper gives no other detail about his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Louisville dispatch in the Daily Los Angeles Herald (reporters).