Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Black people held in the custody of a sheriff near Mobile, Alabama, were taken from him by a masked mob and hanged, according to a brief item in the Daily Public Ledger published on October 9, 1906. The item gives no names or ages for either person. The paper's account of why the mob came for them is not repeated here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.