Wiley
Willey, a Black man, was held in the jail at Newton, Baker County, Georgia, in June 1903. Newspaper dispatches from the period say a mob overpowered the jailer, took him from the jail, and hanged him from a tree a mile from town, where he was also shot. The same dispatches say two other Black men were taken from the jail and killed in the same way. The jailer was overpowered by the mob, not reported to have handed Willey over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob overpowered the jailer at the Newton, Georgia jail, took Willey out, and hanged him from a tree a mile from town, then shot him, according to the report and an Albany, Ga. dispatch in the Evening Journal.
Reported by: Albany, Ga. dispatch in the Evening Journal (reporters); the report.