Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was held in a Kentucky jail in early August 1908. A mob of white men forced the jailer to hand over the prisoners under threat of battering down the doors, and the jailer gave them up. The mob hanged him, along with three other Black men, 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: news reports.