Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died January 1897 · Jackson County, Georgia

Two Black men held in the jail in Jefferson, Georgia, were taken from the building by a mob and hanged in early 1897, according to a January 1898 report in the El Paso Daily Herald. Their names are not given in the account.

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

Reported by: El Paso Daily Herald (reporters).

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