In Lowndesboro, Alabama, Elmore Bolling, a 39-year-old Black businessman with a general merchandise store and a small trucking business that frequently hauled cattle to the Montgomery stock yards, was lynched. He was found riddled with shotgun and pistol shots 150 yards from his store. Enraged whites, jealous of his business success, were believed to be responsible, and people who knew him said he had long been considered a marked man because whites in the community viewed him as too successful to be Black. Bolling was married, the father of seven children, and had an excellent reputation in the community. More than one person was believed to have taken part in the murder, but only one white employee of Producers Commission Company Union Stock Yards, a resident of Braggs who claimed Bolling had insulted his wife in a telephone conversation and who passed daily in front of Bolling's business while working at the stock yards, was held and then released on $2500 bond.