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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died January 1912 · Georgia

A woman whose name the sources do not give was held in a Georgia jail in January 1912. A mob of about a hundred men took her from the jail early one morning, along with three others, and killed all four. More than three hundred shots were fired into the bodies.

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

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