Died in jail or a lockup
Mose
Mose, a Black man, was held in the jail at Abbeville, Alabama. A secondhand newspaper report, citing an unnamed informant, says a crowd that it puts at several thousand took him from the jail. The report says the jailer let the crowd take him, the sheriff did not oppose them, and the crowd killed him by burning him in the open. The report gives no date for the event.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An unnamed informant, as reported in a reprinted Louisiana Sentinel account, says a crowd took Mose from the Abbeville, Alabama jail and burned him on a pole.
Reported by: unnamed informant, as reported in the Louisiana Sentinel account.