Died in jail or a lockup
J. Lee Hall
J. Lee Hall, a Black man, was held in the jail at Wrightsville, Georgia, in February 1903. According to a brief Arizona Republican dispatch published February 13, 1903, a mob took him from the jail and lynched him. The dispatch does not say how the mob got into the jail, or whether the jailer resisted or handed Hall over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched