Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Whitfield County, Georgia

A man held in the jail at Dalton, Georgia, was taken from it by a mob and lynched, according to a brief item in The Falmouth Outlook, a weekly news summary published July 5, 1907. The item states that the mob took him from the jail and killed him. Attributed to that 1907 newspaper report, these are the only details of his death recorded here.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report