Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to an aged local resident, as recalled in a 1946 report in The Daily Bulletin, a Black man was taken from the jail at Watkinsville, Georgia, around 1897, fastened to a fence and shot by a mob. The account names none of the men in the Monroe area killed in that period, of whom he was one of eight. The man's name is not recorded in the report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An aged local resident, as recalled in the ANP report, says the men were taken from the Watkinsville jail and riddled with bullets.
Reported by: an aged local resident, as recalled in the ANP report.