Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man whose name the 1872 dispatch does not give was held in a jail in Kentucky. On the night of November 9, 1872, a group of citizens took him from the jail and hanged him, according to the Nashville Union And American, published November 12, 1872.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of citizens took the man from the Kentucky jail and hanged him, according to a historical dispatch that does not say whether jail staff resisted.
Reported by: news reports.