Died in custody
Name not reported
Two Black people were taken from officers by a mob and lynched in Waycross, Ware County, Georgia, a few months before the Brunswick News reported on the killings in November 1908. Judge Parker, in his charge to the grand jury, called for an investigation, describing the killings as taking innocent lives in the shadow of the county courthouse.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Judge Parker, in his charge to the grand jury, described the killings as a mob taking the men from officers and lynching them.
Reported by: Judge Parker, in his charge to the grand jury (court).