Died in custody
William Allen
William Allen, a Black man, was held by a sheriff and officers at the depot in Guyton, Georgia, on September 6, 1891, while being taken toward the county jail. According to the Weekly Courier-Journal, about seventy-five armed men without masks took him from the officers, marched him about a mile away, chained him to a tree and shot him. The article reports that the officers offered little resistance and that the sheriff had been instructed to take him elsewhere.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about seventy-five armed men took him from the sheriff and officers at the Guyton depot, chained him to a tree and shot him.
Reported by: news reports.