Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Lexington, Kentucky, was taken out by a mob and hanged, according to a report reprinted from the Cincinnati Chronicle in the New-Haven Daily Herald in 1841. The report names no one, and it gives no date for the killing. The newspaper's record of the death is the only source for it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Cincinnati Chronicle, as reprinted by the New-Haven Daily Herald, reports that a mob took one of two men held in the Lexington, Kentucky jail and hanged him.
Reported by: Cincinnati Chronicle (as reprinted by the New-Haven Daily Herald) (reporters).