Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Black men were taken from the jail at Owensboro, Kentucky, and lynched, according to a brief item in The Weiser Signal of December 27, 1900. The item does not name them or give the date of their deaths. It also does not say how the mob got into the jail, or whether the jailers or officers resisted or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.