Died in custody
Name not reported
Sheriff Powers was taking two Black men from Birmingham, where they had been held, toward Mobile when about two hundred masked men met him near Richardson Switch, three miles north of Mobile. According to an Associated Press dispatch, the mob took the two men from the sheriff and hanged them on the spot. No one else was hurt.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Associated Press reported that about two hundred masked men met Sheriff Powers while he was transporting the two men from Birmingham to Mobile, took them from him and hanged them.
Reported by: Associated Press (reporters).