Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In August 1908 the Hopkinsville Kentuckian reported that a band of masked men took four Black men from a Kentucky jail and hanged them from a tree. The men had been held at the jail when the mob seized them and killed them. The same paper reported that postal authorities in Washington barred from the mails postcards showing the killings, which a Russellville photographer had printed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.