Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Perry, Georgia, was taken out by a mob on the night of Monday, November 24, 1879, and lynched. On the same night, a mob took a Black man, whom the Daily Republican identified as probably Henry Walker, from the jail at Fort Valley, Georgia, and lynched him. The paper said the people who took him were connected to him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper reported that a mob took a Black man, probably Henry Walker, from the Fort Valley jail on Monday night and lynched him.
Reported by: the newspaper report on the Fort Valley lynching (reporters).