Died in custody
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name the report does not give, was being taken by a guard to the jail at Elkton after he was detained near Fairview in Todd County, Kentucky, in May 1880. According to a Courier-Journal correspondent in Hopkinsville, as it was said at the time, a mob took him from the guard, shot him several times and left his body hanging from a tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Courier-Journal's Hopkinsville correspondent reports it is said that a mob took him from a guard being taken to the Elkton jail, shot him several times and left him hanging from a tree.
Reported by: Courier-Journal's Hopkinsville correspondent (reporters).