Alfred Williams
Alfred Williams, a Black man, was held in the Warren County jail in Warrenton, North Carolina, in January 1921. According to the Birmingham Age-Herald, a masked mob overpowered the jailer, John Green, took the keys, and removed Williams and another man from the jail. The men were carried about a mile outside town into the woods and shot to death. Accounts give the date of the killing as the night of January 23 or early January 24, 1921. The Ocala Evening Star reported that Governor Morrison ordered home guards out, but that they arrived too late to prevent the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked mob took Alfred Williams from the Warren County jail, overpowered the jailer and shot him to death in woods outside Warrenton, N.C.
Reported by: Jackson, N.C. report carried by The Dallas Express (reporters); Warrenton, N.C. newspaper report (reporters); other newspaper accounts of the Warren County lynchings (reporters).