Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This person is one of seven people, six of them Black, whom a mob took from a Georgia jail and shot to death, according to a June 1905 Courier-Journal editorial. The paper reports that the mob took them from the jail and shot them, but it does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted, gave up the keys, or handed them over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Courier-Journal editorial (reporters).