Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In October 1867, a mob took two men from the jail at Nicholasville, Kentucky, and hanged them, according to a brief item reprinted in The Orangeburg News in November of that year. The item gives no names or ages for the men. It is the only account of the deaths in the sources and does not describe whether jail staff resisted or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Orangeburg News, reprinting a brief item from another paper, reports that a mob took two men from the Nicholasville jail and hanged them.
Reported by: The Orangeburg News (reprinting another paper) (reporters).