Died in jail or a lockup
Peter Stamps
Peter Stamps, a 45-year-old Black man, worked on a white farmer's place near Douglasville, Georgia, according to a Savannah Morning News report from July 1885. He had been placed in jail, and a mob of about 500 men took him from the sheriff while the sheriff was moving him out of the county. The mob hanged him from a railroad bridge on the night of July 24, 1885. The report says the sheriff was overpowered on the road, but it does not say whether he resisted or handed Stamps over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.