Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a wire report, a mob took this Black man from the jail at Paducah, Kentucky, in October 1916 and hanged him from a tree. He was the second of two men the mob took from the jail in this way. The report says the bodies were burned afterward and that about six thousand people watched.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire report.