Thomas Carrier
Thomas Carrier was held in the jail in Danville, Kentucky, in April 1867. A band of men calling themselves Regulators took him from the jail and hanged him in sight of his family, according to The Tri-Weekly Standard, which described the killing as one of a series of acts by a mob in Boyle County. The Weekly North-Carolina Standard reported that the hanging happened the same night the Regulators fired on a Black man. The Standard and the Tri-Weekly accounts do not say whether the jailer or deputies resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A band of Regulators took Thomas Carrier from the Danville jail in Kentucky and hanged him in sight of his family, according to the Tri-Weekly Standard.
Reported by: The Tri-Weekly Standard (reporters).