Died in custody
Name not reported
An unidentified Black man was held in the custody of officers in Hartford, Alabama. After a preliminary hearing before the town's mayor, officers were taking him back when a mob seized him from them. According to a newspaper dispatch published on May 12, 1900, the mob killed him three miles from Geneva.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch reports that a mob seized him from officers while he was being taken back after a preliminary hearing and lynched him three miles from Geneva, Alabama.
Reported by: news reports.