Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black men were being held in the jail in Selbyville, Kentucky, in January 1911. According to a wire dispatch carried by The Maui News, a mob took the three men from the jail and lynched them. The men were held at the jail when the mob took them, and the dispatch attributes the killings to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A wire dispatch reports that a mob took three men from the jail in Selbyville, Kentucky, and lynched them.
Reported by: wire dispatch.