Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Monticello, Georgia, was taken from it by a large group of citizens, according to a newspaper report published in November 1898. The group carried him a short distance and shot him to death. His name is not legible in the surviving text of the report, so he cannot be named here. It also does not give the date of the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.