Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Glasgow, Kentucky, was taken from the jail by a group of about fifty men on horseback at about one in the morning in June 1898, according to the Oxford Eagle. The group hanged him from a tree. The man is not named in the account. The account reported by the Oxford Eagle does not say whether the jail's staff resisted the group or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.