Balam Hancock
Balam Hancock was held in the jail at Gibson, in Glasscock County, Georgia, when a mob broke into it at night on November 21, 1895, according to a Warrenton, Georgia dispatch printed in the Morning News that relayed what people arriving from Gibson had said. The dispatch says the mob took him from the jail and lynched him near the place where the reported incident happened. Other papers printing the same dispatch give the date as November 22 rather than November 21.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Warrenton, Ga. dispatch citing people arriving from Gibson says a mob broke open the jail and lynched Balam Hancock after the sheriff had taken him there.
Reported by: Morning News special dispatch from Warrenton, Ga., citing people coming in from Gibson (reported in the Birmingham State Herald) (reporters); Warrenton, Ga. dispatch citing people coming in from Gibson, Glasscock county (reporters); Warrenton, Ga. dispatch citing people arriving from Gibson (reporters).