Saul Thompson
In November 1858, a crowd of two or three hundred men took Saul Thompson from the Greensburg, Kentucky jail, according to a Louisville Journal letter from Campbellsville reprinted in the Richmond Enquirer. The men carried him about twelve miles to an elm tree and hanged him there. The sheriff and jailer tried to stop the crowd, and a local citizen's speech was reported to have turned it back from some of the other prisoners. At his request, a prayer was offered on his behalf before he was hanged.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Louisville Journal letter from Campbellsville, reprinted in the Richmond Enquirer, says a mob of two or three hundred men took Saul Thompson from the Greensburg jail and hanged him from an elm tree about twelve miles away.
Reported by: Louisville Journal letter from Campbellsville, reprinted in the Richmond Enquirer (reporters).