Name not reported

In September 1901, a mob took three Black men from the Cairo, Illinois jail at night and hanged them in Wickliffe, Kentucky, according to a newspaper dispatch carried by The Seattle Star. The jail's keepers were not described as resisting or handing over the keys, so the account gives no more detail on how the men were taken. The men are not named in the report, and the dispatch gives no further details about them.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch reports that a mob took three men from the Cairo, Illinois jail and hanged them in Wickliffe, Kentucky.

Reported by: newspaper dispatch.

Source

• The Seattle Star, September 12, 1901, page 1 The Seattle Star, September 12, 1901