Name not reported
The person was held at the Baldwin County jail in Alabama when a mob took them from the jail and lynched them in 1923, according to a published statement by former governor Thomas E. Kilby. Kilby said the sheriff had not prevented the lynching and called the sheriff to Montgomery to explain. The governor also sent an assistant attorney general and detectives to investigate the killing. The sheriff later resigned, and about two dozen members of the mob were convicted.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Former governor Thomas E. Kilby said a prisoner was taken from the Baldwin County jail and lynched, and the sheriff resigned after being called to Montgomery to explain why the lynching was not prevented.
Reported by: Thomas E. Kilby, former governor, in a published statement.