Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A mob took a Black person who was being held at the jail in Springfield, Missouri, and hanged them, according to a brief item in a Kentucky weekly. The paper reported that the mob then burned the body. The killing is reported in the Owingsville Outlook, published April 19, 1906.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Kentucky weekly newspaper item (reporters).