Died in jail or a lockup
One of 10 people whose names were not reported
A Black person held in the Newberry jail in Florida was one of five people a mob took from the jail in the early hours of Saturday, August 19, 1916, and hanged. The Brownsville Herald reported the five deaths together and named none of the five. The report describes the mob seizing them from the jail, and the sheriff's and jailers' conduct during the seizure is part of the same account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. News dispatches report that a mob of about 200 men entered the Newberry, Florida jail, took five Black people held there and hanged them from an oak tree.
Reported by: news dispatches.