Died in jail or a lockup
Dusty Crutchfield
Four Black people were held in the Harris County jail in Hamilton, Georgia: Belle Hathaway, John Moore, Eugene Haming and Dusty Crutchfield. On the night of January 22, 1912, a mob of about one hundred men broke into the jail, overpowered the jailer and took the four out. One report said the mob hanged them from trees in town, while an Associated Press report said the mob carried them about a mile from town and shot them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). A mob broke into the Harris County jail and hanged the four people held there, according to one account, while an Associated Press account says the mob shot them, and the two accounts differ on how they died.
Reported by: Associated Press (reporters).