Dan Anderson
Dan Anderson, 32, was being taken by Sheriff T. B. Adams of Noxubee County from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, toward Macon, Mississippi, when a mob of 350 to 500 men followed the sheriff's party. According to Charles Richards, a Macon attorney who was with the party, the mob seized Anderson just across the Mississippi line and shot him. Members of the sheriff's party reported more than 200 shots fired into his body.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Charles Richards, a Macon attorney who was with the sheriff's party, says a mob of 350 to 500 men took Anderson from Sheriff T. B. Adams and shot him after the party crossed into Mississippi.
Reported by: Charles Richards, Macon attorney; Sheriff T. B. Adams's party (the agency that held him).