Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On the night of Monday, April 14, 1884, a mob took two people from the jail in Jackson, Kentucky, and hanged them, according to a one-line dispatch in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union. The dispatch gives no names or ages for the two people. It does not say whether the jail's officers resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed the two people over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A one-line Sacramento Daily Record-Union dispatch reports that a mob hanged two people taken from a Jackson, Kentucky jail, but gives no names and does not say how the jail's officers responded.
Reported by: Sacramento Daily Record-Union (reporters).