Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man about thirty years old was held at the jail in Paris, Kentucky. On the afternoon of March 28, 1866, citizens took him from the jail and hanged him in the courthouse yard, according to a dispatch published in The Daily Mississippi Clarion on April 5, 1866. The dispatch reports that his body was still hanging afterward and that the citizens showed no sign of taking it down.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch reports that citizens took him from the Paris, Kentucky jail and hanged him in the courthouse yard.
Reported by: news reports.