Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial published October 6, 1916, a woman held in the Calhoun County, Georgia, jail was taken from it by a mob and killed on Monday, October 2, 1916. The editorial gives no name for her and no account of how jail officers acted during the seizure. The paper placed her death within a wider pattern in Georgia, which it said involved officers handing people over to mobs.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial (reporters).