Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four young Black men were held in an Alabama jail in October 1892, and the newspaper report gives no names or individual ages for them. According to an unnamed dispatch datelined Montgomery, Alabama, a group of citizens took the four men from the jail. The dispatch says they were then taken to a point six miles east of the Alabama River and shot to death. The men's names and their individual ages are not recorded in this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch datelined Montgomery, Ala. reports that citizens took the men from jail and shot them.
Reported by: unnamed newspaper dispatch datelined Montgomery, Ala. (reporters).