Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Cartersburg Jail, Cartersburg, Georgia

A Black man held in the jail at Cartersburg, Georgia, was taken from the jail by a mob and killed, according to a brief 1904 report in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal. The report says five hundred shots were fired into his body.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report