Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held at the jail at Sparta, Georgia, was taken from the jail by a band of lynchers, according to a December 1885 report in The Rugby Gazette And East Tennessee News. The paper says he was supposed to have been shot to death and his body thrown into a creek. The account gives no name for him and does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper reported that a band of lynchers took the man from the Sparta jail and that he was supposed to have been shot to death.
Reported by: unnamed reports cited in the newspaper.