Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Richmond, Kentucky, was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged on November 7, 1869, according to a short item in the Middletown Transcript published November 13 that year. He was in the jail's custody when the mob took him from it and killed him. The item is the only account of his death in this record.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.