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