Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in a Kentucky jail was one of three people taken from it on Tuesday night, December 1, 1874, by a band of masked men, according to a special dispatch to the Courier-Journal printed in the New-York Tribune. The mob hanged them from a tree near the jail. The dispatch gives no name or age for the person. The account is a brief newspaper report, and it is the only account of the killing in these sources.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Courier-Journal special dispatch reports that a band of masked men took one of three people held in a Kentucky jail and hanged him from a tree nearby.
Reported by: Courier-Journal special dispatch (reporters).