Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Black men were being held in the Louisville jail when a crowd forcibly took them out of the building and killed them, according to the Bradford Reporter of May 21, 1857. The jail was the place where the state held them, and the mob took them from it. Both men were killed by the crowd that came for them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched