Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man whose name the 1857 report does not record was taken from the Louisville jail by a mob on the night of May 14, 1857, and hanged. The Daily Dispatch described it as the third hanging the mob carried out in connection with the same events. The jail's holding of him and the mob's seizure of him make this a death in custody, and no official claim about the death is recorded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.