Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Escambia County, Florida

A Black man held in the Pensacola, Florida, jail was taken from the jail by a mob and lynched, according to a short item in the Jones County News of July 24, 1913. The item gives no name for him and no date for the killing. Nothing in it describes how the mob got in or what the jail's officers did.

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

Reported by: Jones County News (reporters).

News report