Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the Marengo County jail in Alabama was taken from the jail by a crowd and shot to death, according to a resolution of the Camp Harder United Confederate Veterans in Birmingham, reported in the Montgomery Advertiser in August 1904. A second paper, the Pine Bluff Daily Graphic, carried the same resolution the next day, describing the killing as something the veterans had been informed of. The man's name is not given in either report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Camp Harder, United Confederate Veterans resolution says a man was taken out of a jail in Marengo County, Alabama, and riddled with bullets.
Reported by: Camp Harder, United Confederate Veterans.