Died in custody
Name not reported
In June 1895, this Black man was one of four men being moved under guard toward a jail in Florida, according to a dispatch from Burlow, Fla., printed in the Corvallis Gazette. The dispatch says about fifty masked men with rifles took the four men from their guards and led them into the woods. Three of the four were killed there, and he was one of them. The report identifies no member of the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper dispatch from Burlow, Fla. (reporters).