Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a report in the Hopkinsville Kentuckian in August 1908, four Black men held in a Kentucky jail were taken out by a band of masked men. The mob hanged all four from a tree. The men were in the custody of the jail when the mob took them and killed them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.