Died in custody
John Evans
John Evans and his father, Monroe, were held under guard at a neighbor's house in Cullman, Alabama, in August 1891, after a local justice of the peace declined to try them and bound them over without bail. According to a special dispatch from Cullman printed in The Morning News, a crowd came to the house around midnight, took the two men from it, and hanged them from a tree. The guard told the paper he fled, believing the crowd were the prisoners' friends coming to rescue them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd took John Evans from the house where he was guarded and hanged him from a tree, according to the Ape-Herald's Cullman dispatch.
Reported by: Ape-Herald special dispatch from Cullman (reporters).