Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died May 1906

A Black man held in a jail was taken from it by a mob and lynched in May 1906, according to a Gainesville Daily Sun item from that month. His name, the town and the exact day are not legible in the available text. The jail held him, and the mob took him from it and killed him.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report