Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A person held in the Wickliffe jail was taken from it by a mob and hanged, according to a short item in The Big Sandy News published May 30, 1889. The item does not give the person's name or the date of the killing. Nothing in it describes who the person was. It also does not say how the jailers responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.