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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died January 1912 · Georgia

In January 1912, a mob of about one hundred men took four people from a Georgia jail early one morning and killed them. Three of the four were men. According to the Weekly Journal-Miner, more than three hundred shots were fired into the bodies.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

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