Eli Dotson
Eli Dotson, a Black man, was being taken by a constable toward Quitman in Brooks County, Georgia, for safekeeping, according to a Savannah Morning News report from January 1901. The paper says a crowd of men overtook them near Kennedy's siding on the South Georgia Railroad and shot him. A telephone message from the scene reported that his body was lying where the mob left it. Sheriff Consly was said to have tried, without success, to reach the scene the next morning. The account rests on that single newspaper report of the telephone message.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telephone message reported from the scene says a crowd overtook the constable taking him to Quitman for safekeeping and shot him.
Reported by: press report of a telephone message from the scene.