Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

According to an Associated Press dispatch printed in The Pensacola Journal on December 27, 1920, a mob took a Black man from a town jail during the night. The dispatch says the mob paraded him through parts of the town, hanged him from a telephone pole, and then riddled his body with bullets. His name is not given.

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

Reported by: Associated Press dispatch (reporters).

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