Williams

Williams, a man held in the Princeton jail in Caldwell County, was taken from the jail by a crowd of county residents and hanged in August 1859, according to a Louisville dispatch reprinted in the Fayetteville Observer. The dispatch attributes the account to an unnamed newspaper. Two of his sons left the county to escape the same fate.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Louisville dispatch reprinted from an unnamed newspaper reports that residents of Caldwell county took Williams from the Princeton jail and hanged him.

Reported by: Louisville dispatch reprinted from the Newburgh or other unnamed newspaper (reporters).

Source

• Fayetteville Observer, September 8, 1859, page 2 Fayetteville Observer, September 8, 1859