Hill Richardson
Hill Richardson, a Black man, was taken from the jail at Summerville, Georgia, by a mob that carried him off in October 1893. A Waterbury Evening Democrat report of October 19, 1893 said he had not been heard from again and presumed he had been lynched. A Georgia governor's reward order gives the date as October 17 and says a group of disguised men murdered a Richardson taken from a jail in a Georgia town, and it offered a reward for the killers.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The governor's reward order says a body of disguised men murdered him after he was taken from a Georgia jail, and a second account says a mob took Hill Richardson from the Summerville jail and he was presumed lynched.
Reported by: Governor of Georgia's reward order; news report on the Summerville jail mob (reporters).