Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
The Daily Gate City, reporting from Augusta, Georgia, in January 1869, said that men held in the jail at Appling were taken out and lynched by a mob. The dispatch tied them to the robbery and killing of a man and his two sisters in Columbia, South Carolina, and said they had confessed, though it gave no other evidence for that. The number of people killed and the date of the lynching were not given. The sheriff's or jailer's response to the mob is not described.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Augusta, Ga. dispatch reports that men held in the Appling jail were taken out and lynched.
Reported by: Augusta, Ga. news dispatch (reporters).