Champion
Champion, a Black man, was wounded and captured during a confrontation with a sheriff's posse near a house in Gainesville, Florida, and was held in the Gainesville jail. The Weekly Union Times reported that around 11 o'clock on the night of February 24, 1891, a masked mob entered the jail and took him from his cell. The paper said the mob hanged him from an oak tree in a grove near the jail. The paper's two accounts differ: one says the men unlocked his cell, the other says the jailer and guards were overpowered.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked mob took him from the Gainesville jail after overpowering the jailer and guards, and hanged him in a nearby grove, the Weekly Union Times reported.
Reported by: Weekly Union Times (reporters).