Albert Robinson
Albert Robinson, a Black man, was held in the jail at Inverness, Florida, in April 1892. The Morning News reported that a mob of about 300 men overpowered a deputy and six guards, took him and two other men from the jail, and hanged them in the woods around midnight on April 18. The Evening Herald, relying on an Atlanta dispatch, put the number of masked men at about 100 and described the killings as a lynching. Both papers, reporting on April 20, 1892, said the men were taken by force from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Albert Robinson from the Inverness jail in Florida and hanged him, after overpowering the deputy and six guards, according to local papers.
Reported by: The Evening Herald (Atlanta dispatch) (reporters); local papers.