Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Nicholasville, Kentucky, was taken out by a mob and hanged in October 1868, according to a brief item in The Charleston Daily News. The paper's news summary also reported that the same mob took a second man held in that jail and hanged him. The item attributes both killings to the mob, and the jail's holding of both men is the only detail it gives about them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Charleston Daily News reported that a mob took a second man from the Nicholasville, Kentucky jail and hanged him.
Reported by: The Charleston Daily News (reporters).