Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
The Bryan Morning Eagle reported that an 18-year-old Black man and another Black teenage boy were held in the Shelbyville, Kentucky, jail in October 1901. The paper said a mob broke into the jail in the morning and took the two young men out, and that they were lynched about 300 yards from the building. According to the paper, the jailer refused to give up the keys, and the mob battered the doors down to get in. The article gives no name for the young man and no account from his family.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took two teenage boys from the Shelbyville jail and lynched them, after the jailer refused to hand over the keys and the mob battered the doors down.
Reported by: news reports.