Died in jail or a lockupUnder 18
Name not reported
A 15-year-old boy, the son of Peter Louin, was held at the jail at Electic, near Wetumpka, Alabama. According to a Wetumpka dispatch published in The Berne Witness in August 1899, a mob of masked men took him from the jail and killed him. The dispatch is the only account of the killing used here, so the boy's name and the date of his death are not established from it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Wetumpka, Alabama dispatch reports that a mob of masked men took the boy from the jail and killed him.
Reported by: Wetumpka (Ala.) dispatch (reporters).