Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black men were held in the county jail near Russellville, Kentucky, when a mob took them from custody and hanged them, according to a dispatch the Tacoma Ledger reprinted and a 1908 editorial in The Seattle Republican quoted. The men are not named in the account. The editorial said no trial had been held and that the report which prompted the mob may have been baseless.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch reprinted by the Tacoma Ledger, as quoted in an editorial, says a mob took four Black men from a county jail near Russellville, Kentucky, and hanged them.
Reported by: Tacoma Ledger (reprinted dispatch) (reporters).