Died in custody
Manny Price
Manny Price, a Black man, died on September 1, 1902, near Newberry, Florida, after special deputies who were taking him from Newberry to Gainesville were overpowered by a party of about 300 men. The mob took him, strung him up on a tree about two miles from Newberry, and shot him, leaving his body riddled with bullets. The 1902 Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal reported the killing as a mob lynching of a man in the deputies' custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.