Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This person was 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 editorial does not give their name, the town, or the date of the killing. It reports the mob took them from the jail and shot them, and does not say how jail staff responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Courier-Journal editorial (reporters).