Deaths in Custody
Died in custody

Name not reported

died 1932

A person held in custody was seized and hanged by a mob about eighteen miles from Crockett in 1932, according to a lynching tally printed in the Atlanta Daily World. The tally does not identify the facility that held them or whether any officer resisted the mob, gave up keys, or handed them over.

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

Reported by: Atlanta Daily World (reporters).

News report