Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man whose name is not recorded was held in the jail at Watkinsville, Georgia, in 1897. According to an aged local resident recalled in a 1946 Associated Negro Press report, a mob took him from the jail, fastened him to a fence and shot him, and he died. The account, published in The Daily Bulletin, places his death among eight lynchings of Black men 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.