Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Kentucky jail in December 1874 was taken out on a Tuesday night by a band of masked men and hanged from a tree nearby, according to a Courier-Journal special dispatch reprinted in the New-York Tribune. The dispatch gives no name for him, and it does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed him over. The account is a single brief newspaper report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Courier-Journal special dispatch (reporters).