Name not reported
William, whose surname is not legible in the surviving 1913 newspaper account, was held in the jail in Americus, Georgia. According to The Richmond Virginian, about five hundred men broke into the jail around ten o'clock on the night of June 21, 1913, dragged him to the public square, tied him to a telephone pole and shot him. The newspaper reported that more than a thousand bullets were fired into him. The article says the authorities made no attempt to stop the mob, and that a local pastor who came out to plead with the crowd was not heeded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Richmond Virginian press report says a mob of about five hundred stormed the Americus, Georgia jail, shot him over a thousand times and that authorities made no attempt to stop it.
Reported by: The Richmond Virginian (reporters).