Died in custody
Name not reported
Two Black men were held by officers at Romulus, Alabama, when a mob took them and hanged them, according to a brief item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal published February 16, 1892. The item gives neither their names nor the date of the killing. The officers' response to the mob is not described in this report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.