Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held at the jail in Russellville, Kentucky, was taken from custody by a mob and hanged, according to a report in The Adair County News dated August 12, 1908. The death is recorded as a lynching from custody because the person was in the jail when the mob took them and killed them. The report gives hanging as the cause of death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.