Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A white man whose name the sources do not record was held in a Georgia jail in 1926 when a mob broke in, took him from custody and killed him. The Cordele Dispatch, in a 1927 editorial, called it the only lynching in the state that year and reported that eleven men were later convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for the killing. The editorial does not say which jail was involved or whether the sheriff or jailer resisted the mob or handed the man over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Cordele Dispatch editorial says a mob took a white prisoner from a Georgia jail and killed him in 1926.
Reported by: The Cordele Dispatch editorial (reporters).