Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail at Frankfort, Kentucky, was taken from the jail and hanged by a mob, according to a short telegraph item in the Evansville Journal, published May 10, 1866. The jail was holding this person when the mob took them out and killed them. The account comes from a single brief newspaper telegraph item.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Evansville Journal (reporters).