Died in custody
Jesse Watson
Jesse Watson, a Black man, was in the custody of a sheriff near Pelham, Alabama, when a mob took him from the sheriff on May 26, 1910, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Montgomery. The mob carried him into the woods at about noon. The mob acted the day after a deputy sheriff named Taylor was killed at the Acton mines, a death the report attributed to Watson. His body had not been found when the report was filed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Jesse Watson from a sheriff near Pelham, Alabama, and carried him into the woods, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Montgomery.
Reported by: Associated Press dispatch from Montgomery, Alabama (reporters).