Samuel Lewis
Samuel Lewis was held in a jail in Florida, which press accounts place at either Jupiter or Juno. In August 1895, a mob broke into the jail, and the jailer handed over the keys, according to the Times-Union and other papers. The mob took Lewis from his cell, hanged him from a telegraph pole in front of the courthouse and shot his body. One account says the jailer was shot and killed during the attack.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Samuel Lewis from the Florida jail, hanged him from a telegraph pole and shot his body, and the jailer threw the mob the keys, according to the Jacksonville Times-Union, the Juno report and the Shiner Gazette dispatch.
Reported by: Jacksonville Times-Union special report (reporters); Juno jail news report (reporters); Shiner Gazette report of a West Palm Beach dispatch (reporters).