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died September 20, 1910 · Hillsborough County, Florida

He was an Italian man in Tampa whom the Waxahachie Daily Light described as prominent and conspicuous in the cigarmakers' strike there. On the night of September 20, 1910, deputy sheriffs were taking him and another Italian man to the county jail when a mob seized them at Howard and Grand Central avenues. The mob carried the two men to a wooded area nearby and hanged them from the same tree.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

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