Died in jail or a lockup
Tom Reese
Tom Reese, a Black man, died on June 12, 1898. According to a telephone report from Wetumpka, Alabama, printed in the Worcester Morning Daily Spy, a mob took him from a jail and hanged him about ten miles from the town. He was one of four men the report said were taken from the jail and hanged in this way. Troops sent from Montgomery did not find the men, the report said, because the country there is hilly and wooded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telephone report carried in a Wetumpka dispatch says a mob took Tom Reese and three other men from a jail and hanged them about ten miles from Wetumpka.
Reported by: telephone message reported in the newspaper dispatch from Wetumpka (reporters).