Name not reported

A Black man held in a Kentucky jail was taken from it by a mob and hanged, according to the Nashville Union and Dispatch, which reported the killing in March 1868. The report gives no date for the killing and does not name him. Twelve or thirteen Irishmen were arrested and were being examined at Frankfort, Kentucky, on a charge of murdering him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper account says a mob took him from a Kentucky jail and hanged him.

Reported by: the newspaper account.

Source

• Nashville Union And Dispatch, March 3, 1868, page 2 Nashville Union And Dispatch, March 3, 1868