Died in jail or a lockup
George Fuller
George Fuller was in the custody of a constable and a deputy who were taking him to the Perry County jail in Marion when masked men stopped them at Fike's Ferry and took him from the officers. According to a brief Age-Herald dispatch from December 1900, the men hanged him from a tree near a bridge over the Cahaba River. The seizure happened at Fike's Ferry, and the killing took place at the river crossing nearby.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Masked men took George Fuller from a constable and deputy while they were transporting him to the county jail and hanged him from a tree near a bridge over the Cahaba River.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch.