Died in custody
Name not reported
In June 1895, three Black men were killed near Burlow, Florida, after they were taken from the guards who were moving them toward a jail, according to a newspaper dispatch from Burlow. The dispatch says about fifty masked men with rifles seized the four men and took them into the woods, where three of them were killed. The guards' response to the seizure is not described in the dispatch, and the mob members were not identified.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper dispatch from Burlow, Fla. (reporters).