Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

According to a brief item in The Osceola Times published March 19, 1904, a Black person held in a jail was taken from it by a mob and hanged. The mob took them from the jail where they were being held and killed them. The account names the jail as the place they were held and the mob as the people who hanged them.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report