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 printed in The Interior Journal on June 30, 1905. That item reports that a mob took the men from the jail and killed them by lynching. The killings are placed in June 1905, the month the item was published.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.