Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was held in a jail near Kelson, Georgia, when a mob took him from the jail and lynched him, according to a short item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal published December 26, 1882. The item does not give his name or the date of the killing. It also does not say whether the jail's staff resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.