Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Black men, whose names the sources do not give, were held in the Madison County jail in Huntsville, Alabama. A mob took them from the jail and hanged them from a tree in the spring branch bottom, according to a 1909 passage recalling the killings. The Birmingham Age-Herald described a military company as guarding the jail, and said the mob went in anyway. The Montgomery Advertiser carried the same recollection in its December 26, 1909 edition.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.