Died in custody
Joe Jordan
Joe Jordan, a Black man, was being taken by a deputy to Savannah for safekeeping while in custody in Liberty County, Georgia. According to reports sent to the Wayne County sheriff and printed in The Cordele Dispatch and Daily Sentinel, a mob seized him from the deputy near a bridge and lynched him. The killing was reported in July 1922.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Advices to Sheriff Rogers of Wayne County say a mob took him from a deputy near a bridge in Liberty County and lynched him.
Reported by: Advices to Sheriff Rogers of Wayne County.