Died in custody
Jim Milty
Jim Milty, a Black man, was being held in the custody of the Orange County sheriff at Orlando, Florida, when he died in March 1897. The Roanoke Times reported that about fifty armed men took him and two other men from the sheriff, hanged them from trees and shot their bodies. Those are the newspaper's account of how the three men died.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Jim Milty and two other men from the sheriff of Orange County, who had taken them to Orlando for safekeeping, then hanged them from trees and shot their bodies.
Reported by: news reports.