Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In December 1882, a Black person being taken by an officer to the jail near Nelson, Georgia, was seized from the officer on the way and killed by a mob, according to a short dispatch printed in the Salt Lake Herald on December 23. The officer had charge of them and was taking them to the jail when the mob took them. The state held this person in custody when they were killed by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.