Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
The wife of Hayes Turner, a Black woman whose name is not recorded in the accounts, was held in the Valdosta, Georgia, jail when a mob took her out and lynched her with her husband on the night of Friday, May 17, 1918, according to a short wire dispatch. A second Black person, whose name and sex are not given, was taken from the same jail and lynched by the mob that night.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.