Dorsey
Dorsey was held in the Centre jail in Centre, Alabama, in October 1884. According to a dispatch from Rome, Georgia, published in the National Republican, about forty masked men came to the jail the night of October 21, demanded the keys from the jailer, and took him after he handed them over under threat of pistols. The mob hanged him from a tree about a quarter of a mile away, and his body remained hanging until noon the next day. The account is a newspaper report from 1884 and gives no further details about Dorsey himself.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A National Republican dispatch from Rome, Ga. reports that about forty masked men took Dorsey from the Centre jail after the jailer handed over the keys under threat of pistols, and hanged him from a tree a quarter mile away.
Reported by: National Republican dispatch from Rome, Ga. (reporters).