Died in jail or a lockup
Hicks Prince
Hicks Prince was held in the jail at Starke, Florida. According to a November 1897 dispatch in The Semi-Weekly Messenger, a group of masked men got into the jail by pretending to bring in another prisoner, overpowered the jailer, and took him out. They hanged him from a tree limb, and the report says about fifty shots were fired into his body. The paper's dispatch is dated November 27, 1897, and the day of the killing is not stated in it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Hicks Prince from the jail at Starke, Florida, and hanged him from a tree limb.
Reported by: news reports.