Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
About thirty masked men took a person from the jail at Gadsden, Florida, in 1881 and hanged them from a tree. The report, published in The Iowa Plain Dealer on April 28, 1881, does not give the person's name, age, or sex, and it contains no account from the jail or the sheriff about whether they resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed the person over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched