Name not reported
A Black man, one of four men being moved to a jail near Bartow, Florida, in May 1895, was reportedly taken from the guards by masked men. A dispatch to a New York paper from Bartow, reprinted in the Indianapolis Journal, said the masked men put him to death in a swamp. A later dispatch reported that no trace of the missing men had been found and that the general belief was that the lynching report was untrue.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). A New York paper's dispatch from Bartow, Fla., reprinted in the Indianapolis Journal says masked men took him from guards and killed him, while a second dispatch says no trace of the missing men was found and the lynching report is believed untrue.
Reported by: dispatch to a New York paper from Bartow, Fla., reprinted in the Indianapolis Journal (reporters).