Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Eight Black men were being held in the jail at Watkinsville, Georgia, according to a brief national news item in The Interior Journal, published June 30, 1905. A mob took them from the jail and lynched them. The item gives no names for the men and no date for the killings.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.