Died in jail or a lockup
Gastenge Ficcarotta
Gastenge Ficcarotta was one of two Italian men who had been prominent in the cigar makers' strike in Tampa. Ficcarotta and Angelo Albano 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 1910 newspaper account, the men were taken from the deputy sheriffs, led into a wooded area nearby and hanged from a tree. Deputies told police they believed the mob was made up of Italians and Cubans.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news account reports that a mob took Gastenge Ficcarotta and another man from deputy sheriffs and hanged them from a tree.
Reported by: news reports.