Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Hodlus Heamore, a Black man, was held in the jail at Sylvester, Georgia, when a mob took him from the jail in January 1916. He was found hanged in Lee County and was the fifth of five Black men taken from that jail and killed in this way, according to The Richmond Virginian of January 22, 1916. The newspaper text is an OCR scan, so the spelling of his name may be wrong.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.