Died in custody
Name not reported
Five Black men held in the custody of a sheriff in northeastern Alabama were, according to testimony from a lawyer named Mr. Forney to a congressional committee investigating the Ku Klux Klan, taken by disguised men and killed. Forney's account, printed in the New National Era in July 1871, gives no names for the men. The sheriff's response is not reported.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Mr. Forney, a lawyer testifying to a congressional committee, said disguised men took five Black men from the sheriff's custody and killed them.
Reported by: Mr. Forney, a lawyer testifying to the congressional committee (family or their lawyers).