Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five Black men were held in a jail near Wetumpka, Alabama, according to a short item in the Gloucester County Democrat of June 23, 1898. The item reports that a mob took the five men from the jail and killed them by lynching. Each of them was a person held in the jail's custody when the mob reached them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.