Died in jail or a lockup
Bozeau
Bozeau, a Black man, was held at the Fort White jail in Florida when, late at night on November 8, 1893, according to the Wheeling Register, a sheriff's posse at the jail doors took him away and carried him about a quarter mile, where he was shot to death. The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, reporting on November 10, described his death as a lynching, taken from the sheriff's office. The two accounts differ on the date, giving November 8 and November 9.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A short 1893 news dispatch reports that Bozeau was taken from the sheriff's office at Fort White late at night, carried about a quarter mile away and shot to death, but it does not say who took him.
Reported by: news reports.