One of 2 people whose names were not reported
Two men held at the Hopenwald jail were taken from the building around 1 a.m. by a mob of about 72 people, some of them masked, as reported by The Birmingham Age-Herald on September 29, 1916. The mob took the two men to a hill on the road to the mines, bound them to trees with wire, and shot them. The newspaper reported that the sheriff refused to hand over the men, was seized and threatened with a pistol, and that the mob obtained the jail keys from his wife. Men who followed the mob in an automobile later found the bodies.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took him from the Hopenwald jail, bound him to a tree with wire and shot him, after the sheriff refused to hand over the prisoners and the mob got the keys from his wife.
Reported by: news reports.