Hicks Price
Hicks Price, a Black man, was held in the jail at Starke, Florida, in November 1897. Newspaper accounts say about one hundred men got into the jail by pretending to be bringing in another prisoner, overpowered the jailer, and took Price out. They report that he was hanged from a tree limb and that about fifty shots were fired into his body. One newspaper described him as having always been considered an inoffensive man before this.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about one hundred men took Price from the Starke jail after overpowering the jailer, hanged him from a tree and fired about fifty shots into his body, according to newspaper reports.
Reported by: Newspaper reports of the Starke, Florida lynching (reporters).