Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In September 1916, a wire report carried by The Montgomery Advertiser said a mob took five people from a Florida jail and killed them. The person this record concerns was one of those five; the report does not give their name, age, or the date of the killing. The report describes the jail as the place the people were held, and states that a mob seized them from there and killed them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.