Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Florida

This person was one of five people a mob took from a Florida jail and killed, as reported in a September 1916 wire story in The Montgomery Advertiser. They were held at the jail, and the mob took them from it and killed them. The account gives no name, age, or date for this death.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report