Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Oconee County, Georgia

According to The Times Dispatch, this person was one of eight people shot to death when a mob took them from the jail at Watkinsville, Georgia. The jail was holding them when the mob came for them. The mob took them from the jail and shot them, and the account was published in July 1905.

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

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