John Jeffress
John Jeffress was held in the Alamance County jail at Graham, North Carolina. On August 25, 1920, a mob overpowered Sheriff C. D. Story and seven other officers who were taking him from the jail, put him in an automobile and drove him toward Burlington, where his body was riddled with bullets. According to the Hickory Daily Record, the officers did not draw their pistols or follow the mob. The sheriff had not visited the scene when he spoke to the newspaper.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob overpowered Sheriff C. D. Story and seven other officers, took John Jeffress from the Alamance County jail and shot him; the officers did not draw their pistols or follow the mob.
Reported by: Sheriff C. D. Story (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.