George Eiens
George Eiens was one of three Black men held in the Lee County jail at Leesburg, Georgia, according to a dispatch from Albany published in The Times. On the night of February 11, 1899, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him from trees on the edge of town. The paper reported that the sheriff, who had no force to resist, refused to surrender another prisoner but admitted the mob into the jail. The state militia sent to protect the jail arrived too late. The name in the OCR text is garbled and may be a misreading.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Albany, Ga. dispatch in The Times reported that a mob took George Eiens from the Lee County jail and hanged him from trees on the edge of town.
Reported by: Albany, Ga. dispatch in The Times (reporters).