Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to the Ocala Evening Star, a Black man was being held in a jail in the fourth ward of Ocala when a party of six or seven heavily armed men took him from the jail and drove him out of town toward the Kendrick road. The paper reports that he was thrown from the car and shot with revolver and rifle bullets. Some witnesses, the paper says, saw shooting before he was thrown out of the car. The mob killed him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Ocala Evening Star reports that a mob of six or seven armed men took a Black man from a jail in Ocala's fourth ward, drove him out of town, and shot him after throwing him from the car.
Reported by: Ocala Evening Star (reporters).