Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a 1903 retrospective account in the Hopkinsville Kentuckian, an unnamed young man was held at the Christian County jail when he was taken out on Col. Johnson's order and shot. The account says he protested and was given no hearing before he was killed. The account is a later recollection, so its details are the paper's, not contemporaneous records.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1903 Hopkinsville Kentuckian retrospective account says the man was taken from the jail on Col. Johnson's order and shot without trial.
Reported by: Hopkinsville Kentuckian (reporters).