Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man whose name is not recorded was taken from the jail at Watkinsville, Georgia, around 1897 and killed by a mob. According to an aged local resident recalled in a 1946 Associated Negro Press report, he was fastened to a fence and shot, and the account places him among eight Black men lynched in the Monroe area around the turn of the century.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An aged local resident, as recalled in a 1946 ANP report, says the men were taken from the Watkinsville jail, fastened to a fence and riddled with bullets.
Reported by: an aged local resident, as recalled in the ANP report.