Died in custody
Name not reported
A young man named Savage, a nephew of Tom Savage, was being held by a sheriff's posse on the road to Butler in Choctaw County, Alabama, on December 27, 1891, when a mob overpowered the posse and hanged him. According to a New Orleans newspaper dispatch published the next day, the mob also hanged Bob Sims and Tom Savage. The account reports that Savage asked that, if the men cared enough to bury him, he be laid beside Sims, saying they had been fighting for the same cause.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch reports that a mob overpowered a sheriff's posse on the road to Butler and hanged the man.
Reported by: newspaper account of a New Orleans special dispatch (reporters).