Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Kentucky jail in December 1874 was taken from the building 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. He was the second of three people held there that night who were taken, the dispatch says. The jail's staff are not described as having resisted the mob or handed over the keys, and the paper gives no name for him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Courier-Journal special dispatch reports that a band of masked men took a prisoner from a Kentucky jail and hanged him from a tree nearby.
Reported by: Courier-Journal special dispatch (reporters).