Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Kentucky jail was taken from the jail in August 1908, along with three other Black men, by a mob of white men, according to The Seattle Star. The paper says the jailer handed the prisoners over after the mob threatened to batter down the doors. The men were hanged from a tree on the Nashville pike, and their bodies were found at dawn.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper account of the 1908 lynching (reporters).