Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black men were held in a county jail near Russellville, Kentucky, when a mob took them and hanged them, according to a dispatch reprinted in The Seattle Republican in August 1908. The men are not named in the account. An editorial quoted in the same report says 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).