Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two men held in the jail at Nicholasville, Kentucky, were taken out of it by a mob and hanged, according to a brief item in The Charleston Daily News from November 1868. Neither man is named in the item. The paper gives no account of how the mob got in or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted, gave up the keys or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Charleston Daily News reported that a mob took two men from the jail at Nicholasville, Kentucky, and hanged them.
Reported by: The Charleston Daily News (reporters).