Jim Johnson
Jim Johnson, a Black man, was taken from the officers who had him in custody and lynched on September 28, 1922, while being moved toward Wrightsville, Georgia. Deputy Sheriff Wood said, citing word from the officers who had the prisoner in their charge, that a mob seized Johnson from them. Officers handed him over to the mob, according to that account, and no resistance by them is described.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Deputy Sheriff Wood reported, citing word from the officers who had Johnson in custody, that a mob took him from those officers and lynched him en route to Wrightsville.
Reported by: Deputy Sheriff Wood, citing word from the officers who had the prisoner in charge (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.