Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man, the son of an older man, was held in a jail in Alabama in August 1899. According to an Associated Press dispatch printed by The Daily Journal on August 21, a mob took him and his father from the jail and lynched them. The dispatch places the killings on August 20, 1899.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Associated Press dispatch says a mob lynched him after taking him from a jail.
Reported by: Associated Press dispatch (reporters).