Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a May 1911 editorial in the Savannah Tribune, one of six Black people taken from a jail in Lake City, Florida, was killed by a mob the week before publication. The editorial gives no name, age, or other details about this person. It also does not say how the jail gave them up, or whether jailers resisted the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.