Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five Black men were taken from a jail near Wetumpka, Alabama, and lynched, according to a short 1898 item in the Gloucester County Democrat. The article names none of the men and gives no date, no account of how the jail was entered, and no word on whether jailers or officers resisted or handed over the keys. The paper repeats an accusation against the men, but nothing in the item establishes it, and it is left out here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.