Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people held in the jail at Weturopka, Alabama, were taken out by a mob and hanged on June 18, 1898, according to a wire report carried by the Griggs Courier. The jail held them, and a mob took them from it and killed them. Their deaths were recorded in the paper as a lynching from custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.