Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Owingsville, Kentucky, was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged near the town on September 14, 1881, according to a 1921 retrospective column in the Owingsville Outlook that looked back on the event. His name is not given in the account. The column is the source for the lynching from the jail and does not describe how jail staff responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Sentinel-Democrat's retrospective column says a mob took a man from the Owingsville jail and hanged him near town.
Reported by: The Sentinel-Democrat (retrospective column) (reporters).