Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Florida

A mob took this person from a Florida jail, where they were held, and killed them. A September 1916 wire story published in The Montgomery Advertiser reports this as one of five killings in which people were taken from the jail in the same way. The account gives no name or age for this person and no date for the killings.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report