Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A mob broke down the door of the jail at Henryville, Kentucky, in the early hours of October 2, 1901, and took an 18-year-old Black man from his cell. According to a Henryville dispatch printed in the Daily Ardmoreite, the mob forced the door after the jailer refused to give up the keys. The mob then hanged him from the Chesapeake and Ohio trestle near the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Daily Ardmoreite special dispatch from Henryville says a mob battered down the jail door after the jailer refused to give up the keys, then hanged him from the Chesapeake and Ohio trestle.
Reported by: Daily Ardmoreite special dispatch from Henryville (reporters).