Died in custody
Mose Dossett
According to the Montgomery Advertiser, masked men took Mose Dossett from a deputy sheriff in Mobile County in the early hours of September 21, 1907, and hanged him from an oak tree near Whistler. He was held in the deputy's custody when the mob seized him and killed him. The accounts of the events that led to his arrest are disputed and are not repeated here. The hanging took place within fifty feet of the spot where two other Black men were lynched in September 1906.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Masked men took Mose Dossett from a deputy sheriff and hanged him from an oak tree near Whistler, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
Reported by: Montgomery Advertiser (reporters).