Died in jail or a lockup
Caesar
A Black man named Caesar was taken from a jail near the Georgia dateline by a mob and shot to death in April 1915, according to a short wire notice printed in The Buffalo Bulletin. The jail he was held in is not named in the notice, which also does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed him over. The death is listed as a lynching from custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Caesar from a jail near the Georgia dateline and shot him, according to a short wire notice that does not say whether jail officers resisted.
Reported by: unnamed wire report carried by the paper.