Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In April 1919, during race riots that began at Buckhead Church in Georgia, a mob took a Black man from the county jail where he was held and lynched him, according to a brief newspaper dispatch. The same report lists a county policeman, a night marshal and four other Black men as killed in the violence. No name, age or family for him is given in this account. The dispatch offers no account of how the jail's officers responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.