Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man who had been held in a jail in Georgia was lynched by a mob, according to a dispatch datelined April 14, 1919, and printed in The Mena Weekly Star. The dispatch placed the killing alongside an account of a race clash at a Buckhead church the day before. No name, age, or family is given for the man.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.