Eugene Hamilton
Eugene Hamilton, a Black man, was held in the jail at Gray, Georgia, in 1919. According to a 1921 Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal account of a Jasper County grand jury inquiry, a mob stormed the jail in the fall of that year and took him from the officers. The mob carried him across the county line and riddled his body with bullets. The grand jury found the evidence insufficient to return indictments, though the solicitor had asked it to indict several prominent farmers as ringleaders.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob stormed the Gray, Georgia jail, took Eugene Hamilton from the officers and riddled his body with bullets, according to a Journal account of a later Jasper County grand jury inquiry.
Reported by: Journal (newspaper account of the Jasper County grand jury inquiry) (reporters); Jasper County grand jury (court).