Collos Harrison
Collos Harrison, 31, was held at the Jackson County Jail in Mariana, Florida. Early on a Tuesday morning in June 1943, four masked men came to the jail, threatened the night jailer, Tom Bolser, with a pistol, and took Harrison from his cell, and Bolser said he did not recognize any of them. Harrison's body was found at daybreak on a road about five miles south of Mariana, and Deputy Sheriff A. J. McMullen said he had been killed by blows to the head. State highway patrolmen were sent to help local officers, and a coroner's jury was to investigate the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Deputy Sheriff A. J. McMullen said Harrison was killed by blows to the head after four masked men took him from the Jackson County jail, and night jailer Tom Bolser said he did not recognize any of the men.
Reported by: Deputy Sheriff A. J. McMullen (the agency that held him); night jailer Tom Bolser (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.