Died in jail or a lockup
Washington Lee
Washington Lee had given himself up to authorities at Tollesboro, Kentucky, and was being held in the jail there awaiting trial. According to a correspondent, D. L. D., writing in the Holt County Sentinel in August 1876, about 75 armed men took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree near the town. The account is the correspondent's own, and it is the only source on the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper correspondent, D. L. D., reports that an armed group of about 75 men took Washington Lee from the jail at Tollesboro and hanged him from a tree near the town.
Reported by: newspaper correspondent D. L. D. (reporters).