Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a Kentucky jail in August 1897 was taken by a mob and killed, according to a San Jose Herald editorial reprinted in The Record-Union. The editorial does not name him. It uses the killing to argue that mob law sets its own penalties, and it compares Southern lynching with failures to enforce the law in California.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The San Jose Herald editorial, reprinted in The Record-Union, says a mob lynched a man taken from a Kentucky jail.
Reported by: San Jose Herald editorial (reprinted in The Record-Union) (reporters).