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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died January 1912 · Georgia

In January 1912, a mob of about a hundred men took four people from a Georgia jail early one morning and lynched them. This person was among the four, held at the jail when the mob took them. Three of the four were men. 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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