Joke Patterson
Joe Patterson was one of eight men a mob took from the jail at Watkinsville, Georgia, in the early hours of June 29, 1905. According to a news dispatch, the mob took the keys from the jailer, removed the prisoners from their cells, and hanged them from telegraph poles before shooting the bodies. One account says the jailer gave in and led the mob to the cell, and that the sheriff, who lived a mile away, did not learn of it until morning. Joe Patterson was held at the jail when the mob took him, and the accusations the papers made against him are not repeated here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took him from the Watkinsville, Georgia jail and hanged him, according to the accounts; the jailer gave in to the mob and led them to the cell.
Reported by: news dispatch (Watkinsville, Ga., June 29) (reporters).