Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was one of four Black men held in a Kentucky jail in August 1908. A mob of white men forced the jailer to hand over the prisoners under threat of battering down the doors. The men were taken to a tree on the Nashville pike and hanged, and their bodies were found at dawn.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.