Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a dispatch from Arlington, Georgia, printed in the Kimball Graphic, a Black man was being held in the Millet County jail, where Sheriff Wilkins had placed him under a strong guard. On May 21, 1894, an armed band of about seventy-five men stormed the jail and took him to an oak tree in the public square, where they hanged him. The dispatch says the men then fired hundreds of bullets into his body.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about seventy-five men stormed the Millet county jail, hanged the man from an oak tree and shot him, according to a Kimball Graphic dispatch from Arlington, Georgia.
Reported by: The Kimball Graphic, reporting an Arlington, Ga. dispatch (reporters).