Died in jail or a lockup
Jim Denson
Jim Denson and his half-brother, both Black men, were held in the county jail at Madison, Florida. According to the Savannah Morning News, a group of unknown people seized the sheriff in the street on the night of January 3, 1901, and forced him to hand over the jail keys after he first said he did not have them. The group then took the two men from the jail, carried them into woods about half a mile from town, and hanged them, and the bodies were also reported to be riddled with bullets. The Age-Herald put the number of people involved at a hundred or more.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.