Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died 1910 · Tampa

During a 1910 labor conflict in Tampa, a mob took a man from a jail there late at night and killed him, according to El Internacional, a Spanish-language labor newspaper. The paper reported that his body was exposed to crowds the next morning. It described the killing as mob violence against striking workers and called the man innocent.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A labor newspaper column says a mob took a man from a Tampa jail late at night in 1910 and exposed his body the next morning.

Reported by: El Internacional (labor newspaper column) (reporters).

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