Name not reported

Five Black people were taken from a jail near Wetumpka, Alabama, and lynched by a mob, according to a June 1898 report in the Martinsburg Herald. The jail that held them was the place from which the mob took them. The account gives no names, ages, or dates for the five people. The paper's description of them and of the earlier accusation against them is left out here.

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