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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died November 1910 · Georgia

A Black man whose name is illegible on the scanned 1910 newspaper page was held in a Georgia jail in November 1910. According to the page, a mob took him from the jail and shot him after a fatal quarrel on election day. The page also reports that another Black man was riddled with bullets before the crowd dispersed.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

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