Died in jail or a lockup
Alexander Hall
On October 3, 1892, a mob of about three hundred men took Alexander Hall from the officers who held him in custody at Troy, Tennessee, according to a dispatch from Trenton printed in The Morning Call and a report in the Los Angeles Herald. The mob hanged him and riddled his body with bullets. The newspaper accounts say the officers did not stop the mob. The dispatch says the mob acted the night before the report was published.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 300 men took Alexander Hall from the officers holding him, hanged him and shot his body full of bullets, according to a newspaper dispatch from Trenton, Tenn.
Reported by: newspaper report (dispatch from Trenton, Tenn.) (reporters).