Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, reported as about 20 years old, was held in the jail at Donaldsville, Georgia, according to The Semi-Weekly Messenger, which reported in June 1898 that he was taken from the jail and shot to death. The article gives no name for him and places the death only as having happened 'lately'. The paper does not say how he was taken from the jail, or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted, gave up the keys or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Semi-Weekly Messenger reported in 1898 that the man was taken out of the jail near Donaldsville, Georgia, and shot to death.
Reported by: The Semi-Weekly Messenger (reporters).