Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
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 gives no name for this person, nor the town or date of the killings. The person was held in the Georgia jail when the mob broke in and shot them, and the editorial does not say whether jail staff resisted, gave up keys, or handed them over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Courier-Journal editorial (reporters).