Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An unnamed man held in the jail at Bel Green, Alabama, was taken from the jail by a mob during the night of January 1888 and lynched, according to a short special dispatch to The Morning News. The dispatch gives no name, age, or details of how the mob entered the jail or whether the jailer or officers resisted or handed him over. Because the account is so brief, the man's identity and the circumstances of the killing remain unknown.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch to The Morning News reports that a mob took a man held in the Bel Green jail during the night and lynched him.
Reported by: special dispatch to The Morning News (reporters).