One of 2 people whose names were not reported
No name is recorded for this man, who was one of three men held in the Florence, Alabama jail when a mob took them out and hanged them on September 5, 1872, according to the Opelousas Journal's editorial. The Kentucky Gazette reports that armed guards at the jail fired on the attackers but did not stop them, and a Montgomery Advertiser report from Florence says it had no information about who carried out the hanging. The Opelousas Journal says one of the three was mortally wounded before he was hanged, and that townspeople refused to let the bodies be buried in the cemetery. The accounts agree on the number of men but differ on how the jail was breached and who took part.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Montgomery Advertiser reported that an armed mob took him from the Florence jail and hanged him, and a news dispatch said armed guards fired on the attackers but did not stop them.
Reported by: Montgomery Advertiser (reporters); news dispatch; Opelousas Journal (reporters).