Reddick Adams
Reddick Adams, a Black man, was held in the Seale jail when, according to the Seale correspondent of the Birmingham State Herald, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree within sight of the church, school, courthouse and jail. The correspondent wrote that the jailer was deceived, and that a group first carried Adams toward Pittsboro before the hanging. A later dispatch in The Austin Weekly Statesman gives the name Dick Adams and places the killing at Seluin, Alabama, where it reports a mob took a man of that name from the jail and hanged him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Seale correspondent reports that a mob took Reddick Adams from the Seale jail and hanged him from a tree, and a news dispatch reports that a mob took Dick Adams from the jail at Seluin, Alabama and hanged him.
Reported by: Seale correspondent (reporters); news dispatch reporting Dick Adams at Seluin, Alabama (reporters).