Died in jail or a lockup
Jim Redmond
Jim Redmond, a Black man, was held in a jail in Toccoa, Georgia, when a mob took him and two other men from the jail at about 2 o'clock on the morning of May 17, 1892, according to a Canton newspaper report published two days later. The paper says the men were hanged from a tree just outside town and that their bodies were riddled with bullets. The bodies had not been recovered when the report was written.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper report says a mob took Jim Redmond and two other men from a jail and hanged them from a tree outside town.
Reported by: news reports.