Died in jail or a lockup
Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas, a Black man, was held in the prison stockade at Vinegar Bend, Alabama, in November 1907. According to the Virginia Gazette, a mob forced its way into the stockade during the night, took him out, and hanged him from a telegraph pole beside the Mobile and Ohio Railroad tracks about a mile beyond the town. The account describes the community as greatly excited by the killings. Whether the jailers resisted the mob or handed the men over is not stated in this report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.