Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was one of five men held in a jail near Wetumpka, Alabama, when a mob broke in on June 17, 1898. According to the Phillipsburg Herald, the mob took the five men out of the jail, hanged them and riddled their bodies with bullets. The mob's action is recorded in the paper's account of June 23, 1898.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.