Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In December 1879, The Weekly Miner reported that a Black person held in the jail at Perry, Georgia, was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged. The jail held them at the time, and the mob took them from its custody. The paper records the killing as a lynching carried out by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Weekly Miner reports that a mob took a person from the jail at Perry, Georgia, and hanged them.
Reported by: The Weekly Miner (reporters).