Died in custody
Monroe Evans
Monroe Evans and his son John were held under guard at a neighbor's house in Alabama. According to a Cullman dispatch printed in The Morning News, about midnight on August 15, 1891, a crowd took the two men from the house and hanged them from a tree. The guard said he fled, believing the crowd were friends of the men coming to free them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Monroe Evans from a guarded house where he was held after a justice of the peace bound him over without bail, and hanged him from a tree, according to an Ape-Herald dispatch from Cullman.
Reported by: Ape-Herald special dispatch from Cullman (reporters).