Died in jail or a lockup
One of 2 people whose names were not reported
Two people held in the Frankfort, Kentucky, jail were taken from it on August 6, 1871, by a mob of about forty people, according to a Louisville dispatch printed in the Memphis Daily Appeal. The mob carried them across the Kentucky River, about a mile from Frankfort, and hanged them. The dispatch says the jail was entered so quietly that few in town knew until it was over. Their names are not given in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Louisville dispatch (reporters).