Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black men were taken from the jail at Bartow, Florida, in late May 1895, and a mob put them to death, according to a dispatch dated May 31, 1895. They had been held in that county jail when the mob took them. A fourth man held in the same jail was beaten and ordered to leave the country. The dispatch, as printed in the Arizona Weekly Citizen on June 8, 1895, gives no names for the three men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.