Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Black men were taken from a jail in Georgia on May 17, 1892, and killed by a mob. The mob strung them up to a tree just outside the town and shot their bodies. The newspaper account reports that they were taken together with Jim Redmond, and it gives no names for these two men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.