Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Appling, in Columbia County, Georgia, was taken from it by a group in disguise and killed, according to the New York Herald's report of July 1869. The report gives his killing as the act of that group and no more. He is not named in it, and the death is described only as having happened recently.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched