Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was being held at the Inverness calaboose when, according to a Macon Beacon report published on April 3, 1914, a mob broke into the jail during the night. The mob took him from the jail and hanged him from a railroad trestle. The report is the only account cited here of how he died.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper report.