Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Florida jail was taken by a mob from a sheriff's posse at the jail doors, according to a November 1893 report in The Wilmington Daily Republican. The account says the mob carried him about a quarter of a mile and shot him to death. The dispatch does not say whether the posse resisted or handed him over. His name is not legible in the surviving text.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.