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Died in custody

Name not reported

Georgia

A Black man whose name is not recorded was in the custody of officers of the law near Douglass, Georgia, in 1893. A mob took him from those officers, together with a man named Muchler, and lynched him. The officers' account of how they came to lose custody of the two men is not given here.

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

Reported by: news reports.

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