Charley Jones
Charley Jones, a Black man, was held in the Grovetown town lockup in Georgia in May 1914 after several white men, including a constable, seized and beat him. Fearing he would be lynched from the wooden lockup, townspeople began moving him toward Appling for safekeeping, with two deputies escorting him. Reports say a mob took him from the deputies on the road near Grovetown and shot him to death on May 6 or 7, 1914, and one account says he was also hanged. The papers do not say whether the deputies resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Charley Jones from deputies escorting him from the Grovetown town lockup and shot him to death near Grovetown, Georgia, according to Augusta dispatches; officials moved him for safekeeping because citizens feared a lynching.
Reported by: Augusta news dispatch (reporters); Associated Press report (reporters); Manning Times (reporters).