One of 2 people whose names were not reported
Two men held in the Duval County jail in Jacksonville, Florida, were taken from their cells shortly after midnight on September 7, 1919, by a mob of about fifty men, according to an Associated Press report carried by The Birmingham Age-Herald. The mob shot them and dragged them through the city streets. The jailer was covered with pistols, handcuffed, and forced to give up his keys and point out the cells. Earlier that night, the sheriff had moved a third man out of the jail, the report says.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about fifty men took two Black men from their cells in the Duval County jail, shot them and dragged them through the streets, after the jailer was covered with pistols, handcuffed and forced to hand over his keys.
Reported by: Associated Press report (reporters).