Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, named in the 1920 New York Herald dispatch only as Jules Ferry, was held in a jail in Ocoee, near Orlando, Florida, after a fight that began at the polls on election night. Early on November 3, 1920, a mob took him from the jail and killed him. The name may be a misreading in the OCR text of the newspaper page.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch from Orlando reported that a mob took the man from a jail in Ocoee and killed him.
Reported by: news dispatch from Orlando, Fla. (reporters).