Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On Tuesday morning, May 17, 1892, a Black man held in the jail at Toccoa, Georgia, was taken from it by a mob along with two other men, one of them Jim Redmond, according to the Canton Weekly Register. The mob lynched the men outside town. The newspaper names no one else in the group and gives no details about this man's life.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper report of a mob that took two unnamed men from a jail on Tuesday morning and lynched them outside town.
Reported by: newspaper report of a mob.