Name not reported
A Black person was taken from the Owen County jail by a mob and hanged from a hickory tree, according to a traveler's letter printed in The Breckenridge News in September 1894. The writer, a Breckenridge County man passing through the county, relays what he was shown and told there, so the account is secondhand. The letter does not give the person's name or the date, and it does not say how the mob got into the jail or whether jail officers resisted or handed the person over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A traveler's letter printed in a Kentucky newspaper in 1894 says a mob took a Black person from the Owen County jail and hanged him from a hickory tree.
Reported by: a Breckenridge County traveler writing in a Kentucky newspaper (reporters).