Died in jail or a lockup
William Lud Cornish
William Lud Cornish was held at the jail in Springfield, the Washington County seat in Kentucky, when a mob of about 78 men entered the building and took him on January 29, 1887. The men carried him about two miles north of town to a farm and hanged him there. The source reports this as a lynching from the jail and gives no further account of his life.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched