Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Princeton, Kentucky, was taken from it by a mob and hanged, according to a news digest in The Cape Girardeau Democrat published October 27, 1894. The digest does not give his name or the date of the killing. It also does not say whether jail staff resisted the mob, gave up the keys or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.