Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five Black men held at a jail near Wetumpka, Alabama, were taken from it by a mob and killed, according to a short item in the Gloucester County Democrat published June 23, 1898. The item gives no names for the men. It does not say how the mob got into the jail or whether the jailer or officers resisted, gave up the keys, or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A short newspaper item reports that a mob took five men from a jail near Wetumpka, Alabama, and lynched them.
Reported by: short newspaper item (unnamed paper) (reporters).