Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name is not recorded was taken from a jail in Alabama by a mob, which hanged him, according to a brief editorial aside in the Seward Weekly Gateway of February 17, 1906. The paper says the killing cut short the governor's action on his case. The item gives no name, date or county for the death, and the passage offers no account of how the sheriff or jailer responded. No other source in this record describes the death, so the details of who held him and what happened at the jail remain unknown.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.