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A Black person held at a jail in Alabama was taken out quietly by a few masked men, who overcame the deputies guarding them and killed them. According to The Lusk Herald, which published the account on June 23, 1910, the deputies were overpowered in the course of the killing. The article is a legal column on a sheriff's duty to guard against lynching and cites the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling in State v. Cassias, in which the sheriff's conduct was held to merit his removal from office.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A legal column describes a Black prisoner in an Alabama jail being taken out and killed by masked men who overcame the deputies guarding him.
Reported by: legal column on the sheriff's duty to guard against lynching.