Mathias Jackson
Mathias Jackson, a Black man, was being taken by a deputy sheriff to Alexandria, Louisiana, for safe keeping in late June 1907 when a mob stopped the deputy and took him from his custody. According to the Montgomery Advertiser, the deputy was driven off and then reported the matter in Alexandria. Jackson's body was found hanging from a tree about twelve miles from Alexandria, and the coroner went to the site. One newspaper called it the second lynching in the area that month.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Mathas Jackson from a deputy sheriff who was transporting him to Alexandria, Louisiana, for safe keeping, and he was found hanged from a tree.
Reported by: deputy sheriff. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.