Died in jail or a lockup
One of 5 people whose names were not reported
A Black man, whose name is garbled in the surviving newspaper text, was one of four men held in a Kentucky jail. The Gainesville Daily Sun reported that a mob of about fifty took him and the other three from the jail early on Saturday, August 1, 1908, and hanged them on the edge of town. Their bodies were found at daylight, with a warning note pinned to one of them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about fifty took him from a Kentucky jail in the early hours of August 1, 1908, and hanged him on the edge of town.
Reported by: historical newspaper account (OCR text) (reporters).