Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a jail was taken by a mob of about a thousand people on August 2, 1920, who broke into the jail and hanged him from a tree on the courthouse square. A telegram from the governor's office ordered a military captain to send troops to stop the lynching, but it arrived too late for the militia to be mobilized. His name is not given in the source accounts.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched