Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name the sources do not give, was held in the Ballard County jail in Kentucky in November 1872. According to the Orleans County Monitor, a mob of about seventy-five men, who said they had come from Illinois, broke into the jail, took him out and hanged him from the nearest tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched