Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Eight Black men held in the jail at Watkinsville, Georgia, were taken from the jail by a mob and lynched, according to a brief national news item in The Interior Journal published June 30, 1905. The item names none of the men and gives no date for the killings. It does not describe how the mob reached the men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.