Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Florida jail was taken from it by a mob, according to a brief item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal of May 31, 1901. The mob burned him at a swamp near Bartow, Florida. His death was a lynching carried out by people who took him from the custody of the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.