Name not reported

Five people, described in a 1898 Martinsburg Herald brief as Black, were taken from a jail near Wetumpka, Alabama, and killed by a lynch mob. The brief gives no names or ages for them. It also does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed the men over.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• Martinsburg Herald, June 25, 1898, page 3 Martinsburg Herald, June 25, 1898