Scay J. Miller
Scay J. Miller and his wife were members of the African Methodist Episcopal church, and his wife, who lived in Springfield, Ill., protested that he was innocent and was frantic with grief, according to the Perrysburg Journal. He was held in the jail at Bardwell, Ky. The Journal reports that the sheriff and guards brought him out to a stand, and that a mob then took him from the jail, hanged him from a telegraph pole and shot him. The account says his body was afterward mutilated and burned.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Perrysburg Journal, reprinting a news account, says a mob took him from the Bardwell jail, hanged him from a telegraph pole and shot him.
Reported by: Perrysburg Journal, reprinting a news account of the lynching (reporters).