Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man was taken from a jail in Kentucky early one morning in June 1883, according to The Grenada Sentinel, which reported on June 16 that he had been lynched. The mob took him from the jail and killed him. The name and town cannot be read in the scanned text, so nothing more can be said about who he was or how the jail was entered.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Historical newspaper account (OCR text, Kentucky, 1883) (reporters).