Name not reported
A Black man held in custody near Wetumpka, Alabama, was taken by a mob and hanged on June 18, 1898, along with four other men held with him. The Phillipsburg Herald reported that the sheriff had warned Governor Johnson a mob was gathering and asked for troops, but the militia sent by train had not reached Wetumpka when the mob took the prisoners. The men were taken to a site and hanged, and the paper said their bodies were shot repeatedly.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took five men held in custody near Wetumpka, Alabama, hanged them and shot their bodies repeatedly, while the sheriff had warned the governor and militia had not arrived.
Reported by: the sheriff of Elmore County, who had warned the governor of the assembling mob (the agency that held him); the newspaper report of the lynching.