Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Eight Black men were held in the jail at Watkinsville, Georgia, according to a brief national news item in the Interior Journal, published June 30, 1905. While they were in the jail's custody, a mob took them out and lynched them. The item was printed in the Interior Journal on June 30, 1905.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.