Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to an eyewitness account quoted by Dr. Parsons and printed in the New-York Daily Tribune in March 1860, a man held in a Georgia jail was handed over to a mob by the jail. The crowd whipped him over several days, then took him from the jail and hung him by his hands from an oak tree near the courthouse. Before a crowd estimated at ten to fifteen thousand, he was burned alive, the account says.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An eyewitness account quoted by Dr. Parsons says a mob hanged him by his hands from an oak tree and burned him alive after he had been given up from the Georgia jail.
Reported by: eye-witness account quoted by Dr. Parsons (witnesses).