Name not reported
A Black man named Andrew, whose surname is garbled in the scanned newspaper text, was held in the jail at Scottsboro, Alabama, from Sunday until the night of June 29, 1903. According to a newspaper dispatch, a mob came to the jail that night, and Sheriff Austin confronted them on the stairs and fired his revolver, but he was shot and wounded. A man in the mob forced the sheriff's daughter at gunpoint to hand over the cell keys, and Andrew was led out and taken to a telegraph pole and hanged. The dispatch said the telephone wires were cut to prevent calls for help.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch from Scottsboro, Alabama, reports that a mob took the man from the county jail and hanged him from a telegraph pole after the sheriff's daughter handed over the cell keys at gunpoint.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch from Scottsboro, Ala. (a special to the Nashville Banner) (reporters).