Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black men held in the jail at Newton, Georgia, were taken from the jail by a mob and lynched, according to a June 1903 newspaper account. The men are not named in the report, and their ages are not given. How the mob gained access to the jail, and whether jail staff resisted or handed the men over, is not described in this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched