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Henry Golder

Polk County, Florida

Henry Golder was one of three men held in a jail in Polk County, Florida, according to a September 1903 report in The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. The report says a mob took the three men from the jail and killed them, and that Henry Golder was shot. The account gives no date for the killing and does not describe who was in the mob or what the jail's officers did.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

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