Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Dalton, Georgia, was taken from the jail by a mob and lynched, according to an October 1936 editorial in the Savannah Tribune. The editorial says he had been kept in the jail for several days without proper identification, and that a request for a hearing two days before his death was refused. It also says officers charged with enforcing the law were complicit in the killing, and calls him an innocent man. The editorial does not give his name, age, or exact date of death, and does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (neglect alleged). The Savannah Tribune editorial says a mob took him from the Dalton, Georgia jail and lynched him, and that officers were complicit while a request for a hearing two days before his death was refused.
Reported by: Savannah Tribune editorial (reporters).