Died in jail or a lockup
Riley Webb
Riley Webb, a Black man, was held in the jail at Selma, Alabama. According to a dispatch datelined Birmingham, Ala., published in the Waterbury Evening Democrat, a mob took him from the Selma jail early on the morning of February 15, 1892. The dispatch says the mob hanged him from a tree and shot his body.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch datelined Birmingham, Ala. reports that a mob took Riley Webb from the Selma jail, hanged him from a tree and shot his body.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch datelined Birmingham, Ala. (reporters).