Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Bowling Green, Kentucky, was taken from his cell by a mob of about two hundred men and hanged, according to a brief item in the Chicago Tribune of April 25, 1866. The jail held him until the mob removed him and killed him. The account is the Tribune's, published the day after the death was reported.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Chicago Tribune reported that a mob of about two hundred men took him from his cell in the Bowling Green, Kentucky, jail and hanged him.
Reported by: Chicago Tribune (reporters).