Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man surnamed Watson was held in the jail at Brandenburg, Kentucky, when a group of a hundred or more men from Bullitt and Meade counties took him from custody and hanged him from a tree, according to The Breckenridge News in July 1890. The newspaper's account does not say whether the jailers resisted the mob or handed him over. The paper's approval of the killing is its own opinion and is not treated here as fact.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Breckenridge News reported that a mob of a hundred or more men took a man surnamed Watson from the jail at Brandenburg and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: The Breckenridge News (reporters).