Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a one-line telegram in the San Antonio Daily Light of May 18, 1892, a mob took a Black person from the jail in Clarksville, Georgia, and hanged them along with two others. The telegram does not give this person's name, age, or date of death. Because the account is so brief, the only claim it makes about the killing is that the mob took the person from custody and hanged them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.