Died in jail or a lockup
Rosa Griffin
Rosa Griffin, a Black man, was held in the jail at Lexington, Georgia, in July 1887. According to a telegram relayed by a Savannah dispatch and printed in The Emporia Weekly News, a mob took him from his cell in the early morning and hanged him from a tree on the outskirts of town. The telegram gives no account of how the mob got into the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.