Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black men were held in a jail in Alabama in October 1892, according to an unnamed newspaper dispatch datelined Montgomery, Ala., published October 14, 1892. The dispatch says a group of citizens took the four men from the jail and later shot them to death at a point six miles east of the Alabama River. The men are not named in the account, and their ages are not given.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch datelined Montgomery, Ala., says a group of citizens took four men from the jail and shot them to death six miles east of the Alabama river.
Reported by: unnamed newspaper dispatch datelined Montgomery, Ala. (reporters).