Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died May 10, 1876 · county jail, Gallatin County, Kentucky

A woman, the wife of Ben French, was held in the county jail at Warsaw, Kentucky. On Wednesday night, May 10, 1876, a mob of masked men took her from the jail. The mob hanged her from a limb of a tree.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report