Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, one of five men held in a jail near Wetumpka, Alabama, died on June 17, 1898, when a mob broke into the jail, took the five men to the scene of the killings, and hanged them. The Phillipsburg Herald reported that the bodies were riddled with bullets. The men were accused of murdering and robbing a family and an elderly man, an accusation this account does not repeat.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper report of the lynching.