Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose surname the OCR text of an October 1900 Age-Herald page gives as Warfield, was held in the jail at Elkton, Kentucky. The paper reports that on the night of October 17, 1900, a mob took him from the jail, carried him about a mile out of town, and hanged him from a tree. The jailer's conduct during the seizure is not part of this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.