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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

This person was one of ten Black people taken from a jail by several hundred members of the Ku Klux Klan, who acted under military organization, and killed. The account says the Klan members seized these ten people from the jail where they were held and killed them. A committee investigated these killings.

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

Reported by: the committee investigating the killings.

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