Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On the afternoon of Sunday, September 23, 1906, a Black man in the custody of officers on Marietta Street in Atlanta, on his way to jail, was taken from them by a crowd and shot to death in the street. According to a newspaper dispatch datelined Atlanta, it was later found that he was not the man a woman had identified.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper dispatch datelined Atlanta (reporters).