Died in jail or a lockup
Albert Baker
Albert Baker was one of two men held in the Waycross jail in Georgia for safekeeping on June 17, 1908. According to The Birmingham Age-Herald, a crowd of more than 1,000 people broke through the officers guarding the jail, took both men, and hanged them from a tree at the edge of town. The newspaper reported that more than 100 shots were fired at the bodies.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: The Birmingham Age-Herald (reporters).