Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three people held at the jail in Morgantown, Kentucky, were taken from it by a mob from Uniontown on the night of Tuesday, December 8, 1874, and hanged, according to the River Falls Journal. The paper does not give their names, and it does not say whether the jailer or other officers resisted, gave up the keys, or handed them over. Their race is not stated in this account, and nothing else about who they were is recorded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.