Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Eight Black men were held in the jail at Watkinsville, Georgia, when a mob took them from the jail and lynched them. A brief national news item in The Interior Journal, published June 30, 1905, reported the killings. The men were in the custody of the Watkinsville jail when the mob seized them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.