Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black men held in the Louisville jail in Kentucky were taken from it by a mob and hanged, according to a brief 1856 account. No names are recorded for the men. The jail, held in the state's custody, did not protect them from the crowd that seized them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took the men from the Louisville jail and hanged them, according to a brief 1887 newspaper reference.
Reported by: news reports.