Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Lancaster jail in Garrard County, Kentucky, was taken from the jail by a mob and lynched, according to a Kentucky dispatch reprinted in the Chicago Daily Tribune. The record gives no name or age for him. The jailers' response to the mob is not described, so it is unknown whether the sheriff resisted, gave up the keys or handed him over. The date of the killing is given as 1870 in the database entry, though the 1879 article reports it as a recent event.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Kentucky dispatch reprinted in the Chicago Daily Tribune (reporters).