Died in jail or a lockup
Angelo Albano
Angelo Albano was an Italian man who had been prominent in the cigar makers' strike in Tampa. In September 1910, he and Gastenge Ficcarotta were being taken by hack from the West Tampa barracks toward the county jail when a group of fifty or seventy-five armed men stopped the party. According to the newspaper account, the mob took both men from the deputy sheriffs, led them into a wooded area nearby and hanged Albano from a tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of fifty or seventy-five armed men seized Albano from deputy sheriffs on the way to the county jail and hanged him from a tree, according to news reports.
Reported by: newspaper accounts of the lynching.