Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On Friday night, May 17, 1918, a mob took a Black person from the jail in Valdosta, Georgia, where they were being held, and lynched them, according to a short wire dispatch published in The Cordova Daily Times on May 20, 1918. The dispatch reports that two Black people were taken from the jail that night and that one of them was lynched. The mob's taking of the prisoners from the jail is described in the same brief account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.