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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died July 1901 · Lawrenceville jail, Lawrenceville

A Black man whose name was not recorded was taken from the jail at Lawrenceville by a mob and lynched in July 1901, according to a brief in The Bolivar Bulletin. The brief is part of a weekly news roundup and gives no name or further details about him. The state of the event is unclear in the OCR text, so it is not confirmed.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news report in a weekly news roundup.

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