Died in jail or a lockup
George Boalter
George Baiter, a Black man, was being held at Amoy, Mississippi, when a mob took him and another prisoner and killed them on September 11, 1890. One account says the men were taken from the Amoy jail. Another says a sheriff was taking them to jail when about two hundred unmasked men forced him to hand them over, and that the mob hanged them from a tree near the road. The accounts differ on where the men were taken, and the second says the sheriff handed them over under force.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took George Baiter from a jail at Amoy, Mississippi, and lynched him on September 11, 1890, with the sheriff's resistance not described.
Reported by: news reports.