J.C. Evans
J.C. Evans, a 30-year-old man from Port St. Joe, Florida, was in the custody of two sheriffs in October 1937 when they were transporting him by patrol car in the middle of the night. Newspaper reports from the Pensacola News Journal, Tallahassee Democrat and Ft. Myers News-Press said five masked men with guns stopped the car, forced the two sheriffs out at gunpoint and drove him away. His body was later found sprawled on the edge of a road about a mile away, shot with buckshot. The reports describe his death as a homicide carried out by the group that took him from the sheriffs.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Newspapers report that five masked men forced two sheriffs out of their patrol car at gunpoint, took J.C. Evans away and shot him with buckshot.
Reported by: Pensacola News Journal (reporters); Tallahassee Democrat (reporters); Ft. Myers News-Press (reporters).