Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a jail in the Mobile, Alabama area was seized by a mob and hanged from a tree, according to a short wire report published in The Morning Call on January 19, 1892. The report gives no name for him and no exact date for the killing. It does not say whether the jail's officers resisted the mob or handed over keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire report in the January 19, 1892 paper (reporters).