Died in jail or a lockup
Tom Ranston
Tom Ranston, a Black man, was one of four men lynched by a mob of about thirty men on March 9, 1908, in Jackson County, according to an Associated Press report in The Pensacola Journal. The mob took the four men from a Jackson County deputy sheriff while they were being taken to the jail, and then killed them. The article says the men had been accused of setting fires, but that accusation is unverified and is not repeated here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Associated Press (reporters).