Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to an 1897 editorial by Judge E. B. Wilkerson in the Birmingham State Herald, a mob of citizens in Columbus, Georgia, took a man from the jail in 1896 and lynched him in the streets. The editorial does not give the man's name. It also does not describe how the jail's officers acted when the mob came, so whether they resisted or handed him over is not stated here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Judge E. B. Wilkerson wrote in the Birmingham State Herald that a mob took a man from the jail in Columbus, Georgia, and lynched him in the streets.
Reported by: Judge E. B. Wilkerson, Birmingham State Herald.