Name not reported

A Black man was reported in a brief 1904 roundup in The Abbeville Press and Banner to have been taken from the custody of the sheriff near Atlanta, Georgia, by a mob and lynched. The account gives no name for him and no exact date for the killing. It also gives no details of how the mob took him or whether the sheriff resisted, gave up the keys or handed him over.

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

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• The Abbeville Press And Banner, October 12, 1904, page 2 The Abbeville Press And Banner, October 12, 1904