Died in custody
Robert Grosky
Robert Grosky was a discharged soldier. According to the report, county officials held him and another man near Montgomery, Alabama, in 1919, then let them go and told them to run. A group of masked men then fired on the two men, and Grosky was reported lynched. The sheriff's office did not resist, give up keys, or hand them over according to this account, and the report gives no other account of what happened.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.