Deaths in Custody
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George Hartley

died October 19, 1922 · Camden jail, Benton County, Tennessee

George Hartley was the son of Ed Hartley. According to press reports from Camden, at about midnight on October 19, 1922, a mob of twenty to fifty men with blackened faces took George from the Camden jail in Tennessee. The mob overpowered Sheriff Flowers, marched George to a vacant lot about two hundred yards from the jail, and shot him to death alongside his father.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: Reports from Camden (reporters).

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