Will Millin
Will Millen, a Black man described in one report as a union miner, was held in the jail at Brighton, Alabama, in early August 1908. A mob took him from the jail in the early morning and hanged him from a tree near town. The town marshal said he had locked the jail and later found the door open and the lock undone, while the jailer said he had gone to sleep at his usual hour and knew nothing of the mob. A coroner's jury adjourned to hear more witnesses, and two special deputies were arrested on murder charges and deny any part in the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The coroner's jury recorded a homicide by hanging, and the Brighton jailer said he went to sleep and knew nothing of the mob that broke through the jail's doors.
Reported by: coroner's jury (medical examiner or coroner); Brighton jailer (the agency that held him); town marshal.