Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the Tampa jail was taken from it by a mob, according to a newspaper report from April 1883, and hanged from a shade tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Gainesville newspaper, citing a Washington dispatch, reports that a mob took a man from the Tampa jail and hanged him from a shade tree.
Reported by: Gainesville newspaper citing a Washington dispatch (reporters).