Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In 1908, the Hopkinsville Kentuckian reported that four Black men held in a Kentucky jail were taken from it by a band of masked men. According to the paper, the mob hanged the four men from a tree. The men were in the custody of the jail when the mob took them. Postal authorities in Washington later 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.