Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A report in the Hopkinsville Kentuckian, published in August 1908, said that four Black men held in a Kentucky jail were taken out by a band of masked men and hanged from a tree. Postal authorities in Washington barred from the mails postcards showing the killings, which had been printed by a photographer in Russellville.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.