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 published June 23, 1898, a mob took them from the jail. The mob killed them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A short newspaper item reports that a mob took one of five men from a jail near Wetumpka, Alabama, and lynched them.
Reported by: newspaper item (Wetumpka, Alabama) (reporters).