Mike Kelly
Mike Kelly was brought to Gainesville, Florida, and held in the town jail. According to the Weekly Union Times, a crowd tried to put a noose over his head on his arrival, and the sheriff got him inside the jail. Around 11 o'clock on the night of February 24, 1891, the paper reported, a masked mob overpowered the jailer and guards, broke into the cells, and took Kelly and another man to a nearby grove, where both were hanged from oak trees. The paper said the faces of the mob could not be recognized.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked mob took Mike Kelly from the Gainesville jail and hanged him from an oak tree, according to the Weekly Union Times, after the jailer and guards were overpowered.
Reported by: Weekly Union Times special dispatch from Gainesville (reporters).