Died in jail or a lockup
Dan Kennedy
According to a 1903 report in The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, Dan Kennedy was one of three men held in a jail in Polk County, Florida who were taken from it and lynched. The report says the men were shot, and it gives gunshot wounds as the cause of death. Dan Kennedy was killed in the same events that took the other two men from that jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.