Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In August 1919, a Black man held in the jail at Cochran, Georgia, was taken from the jail by a mob of white and Black men and shot to death, according to a report in The Hartford Herald published August 13, 1919. The paper called the killing illegal and said it should be condemned. The paper's account describes how the man was killed but does not identify him or say how the jail's officers responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of white and Black men took a Black man from the Cochran, Georgia jail and shot him to death, according to a 1919 newspaper account.
Reported by: news reports.