Deaths in Custody
Died in custody

Name not reported

died October 1906 · Mobile County, Alabama

A Black man whose name is not legible in the surviving 1906 newspaper text was being taken by train toward Mobile in the custody of the sheriff, together with another prisoner. According to The Farmer and Mechanic, a masked mob boarded the train, took the men off at Pritchard's Station, and hanged them. He was held by the sheriff when the mob took him and killed him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: The Farmer and Mechanic news report (reporters).

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