Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Florida

This person was one of five people held in a Florida jail who, according to a September 1916 wire report published in The Montgomery Advertiser, were taken from the jail by a mob and killed. The report gives no name, age, or date for this person. It was the jail that held them and the mob that took them.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report