Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Athens, Georgia, was taken from it by a crowd and hanged from a telegraph pole, according to a Semi-Weekly Interior Journal report published in March 1890. After he was hanged, the crowd fired many bullets into his body. His name and the date of the killing are not given in the report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.