Thomas Savage
Tom Savage was one of three men, along with Bob Sims and a younger Savage, who were in the custody of a sheriff's posse in Choctaw County, Alabama, when they were being taken toward Butler at the end of December 1891. According to a New Orleans dispatch printed in the Weekly Courier-Journal, a mob overpowered the posse and hanged the three men. A Mobile dispatch reprinted in The Morning Call says the prisoners had surrendered at a house to the sheriff's posse and were taken from their guards by a group of one to two hundred men about a mile from the house and hanged from one tree, and that the sheriff had promised the best protection he could give. The accounts give little else about Tom Savage, and they differ on where and how the men were taken.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob overpowered the sheriff's posse escorting the prisoners and hanged them, according to a New Orleans dispatch and a Mobile dispatch reprinted in The Morning Call.
Reported by: New Orleans special dispatch (reporters); Mobile dispatch reprinted in The Morning Call (reporters).