Name not reported
According to a Cincinnati Commercial correspondent, a man held in the Mayfield jail in Kentucky in 1861 was described as a friend of Union men who were working for his release. The correspondent reports that those Union men asked the Brigadier General at Paducah for a small force to help free him, and that the general declined to interfere. The correspondent says a party came for him, and that night he was taken from the jail and shot and bayoneted several times. The correspondent's account of the killing rests on a gentleman who saw the body.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cincinnati Commercial correspondent reports, citing a gentleman who saw the mutilated body, that a party took him from the Mayfield jail and shot and bayoneted him several times.
Reported by: Cincinnati Commercial correspondent (reporters).