Died in jail or a lockup
One of 4 people whose names were not reported
A Black man held at the Waycross jail in Georgia was taken from the jail by a crowd of more than a thousand people on June 27, 1908, and killed by the crowd at sundown that day. According to the newspaper account, officers who were trying to move the men held at the jail out of the city were overpowered as the crowd stormed the building. The account describes the officers as overpowered rather than as handing him over, and it gives no further detail about how he was held.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of more than a thousand took a man from the Waycross jail and lynched him, after officers who were moving the men out of the city were overpowered.
Reported by: news reports.