Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Several Black men were being held in the jail at Frankfort, Kentucky, in August 1871, according to a Louisville dispatch printed in the Alexandria Gazette. The dispatch said about forty people took them from the jail so quietly that few knew until it was over, carried them across the Kentucky River about a mile from town, and hanged them. A mob took the men from the jail and killed them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Louisville dispatch says a mob of about forty took several Black men from the Frankfort, Kentucky jail and hanged them across the Kentucky River.
Reported by: A dispatch from Louisville, Ky. (reporters).