Died in jail or a lockup
Horace Maples
Horace Maples, a Black man, was held in a jail when a mob took him out and hanged him, according to a federal grand jury report to Judge Jones in Huntsville, Alabama, as printed in The Gazette on October 29, 1904. The grand jury concluded that he would not have been taken from the jail had he not been Black. It indicted several alleged members of the mob and urged that lynching be stopped.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A federal grand jury reported that Horace Maples was taken from jail and hanged by a mob, and that he would not have been taken had he not been Black.
Reported by: federal grand jury.