Tom Hall
Tom Hall, a Black man, was held in the Wickliffe jail in Ballard County, Kentucky. According to The Paducah Sun, about fifty masked men woke Jailer Dulworth at his home beside the jail shortly after 1 a.m. on October 16, 1903, forced him to hand over the prisoner, and took Hall out and hanged him from a walnut tree, and the jailer, held back by the mob, could not stop them. Hall said he was innocent and named another man. Other accounts gave the date as October 15 and the crowd as about one hundred men. The coroner cut down his body, which was to be buried in the potter's field.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The jailer, Dulworth, told The Paducah Sun that about fifty masked men forced him to hand over Hall and hanged him from a walnut tree, and he could not stop them.
Reported by: Jailer Dulworth, Wickliffe jail (the agency that held him); The Paducah Sun (reporters).