Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black men held at the jail at Russellville were taken from the jail by a mob and hanged, according to a reporter whose account appeared in The Salt Lake Herald on August 2, 1908. A man named Browder, who said he knew the men, told the paper that they all worked on farms in the same area. He also said they belonged to a society that provided insurance and burial for its members.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A reporter, as relayed in the Herald, says four Black men were taken from the Russellville jail and lynched, one of them hanged.
Reported by: a reporter, as relayed in the Herald (reporters).