Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A person held in a Kentucky jail was taken from custody by a mob on the night of Saturday, August 21, 1897, and hanged, according to a brief telegram item published two days later in the San Antonio Daily Light. The item gives no name for the person and does not identify the jail or county. Nothing more about the person's life or the death appears in the item.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: San Antonio Daily Light (reporters).