Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Mike Johnson

Dodge county jail, Dodge County

Mike Johnson died while held at the Dodge county jail, according to a June 1888 report in The Atlanta Constitution. The report attributes the death to the effects of a wound. That wound had been received several weeks earlier at the camps of the Amoskeag Lumber company.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined. A short news item says he died in the Dodge county jail from the effects of a wound he received weeks earlier at the Amoskeag Lumber company camps, and gives no further detail.

Reported by: short news item.

News report