Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black men were being held in the jail at Selbyville, Kentucky, when a mob took them from their cells and killed them, according to a wire dispatch printed in The Maui News on January 21, 1911. The death is dated January 15, 1911. The dispatch does not give the men's names or ages, and it does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.