Died in jail or a lockup
William Carroker
William Carroger, a Black man, was held in the jail at Talbotton, Georgia, in 1909. According to a Greene County Herald report, a group of men gained entry to the jail by pretending they were bringing in a prisoner. They took him to a nearby grove and hanged him, and his body was found there the next morning. A separate wire report in The Port Gibson Reveille described his killing as a lynching by a mob that took him from the Talbotton jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper report says a group of men gained entry to the Talbotton, Georgia, jail on the pretext of bringing in a prisoner, took William Carroger to a nearby grove and hanged him.
Reported by: newspaper report.