Name not reported
An unnamed Black man, one of four men reportedly being moved to jail near Bartow, Florida, in May 1895, was according to a New York newspaper dispatch taken from the guards by masked men and put to death in a swamp. The dispatch reprinted by the Indianapolis Journal in June 1895 did not say whether the guards resisted or handed him over. A later dispatch reports that no trace of the missing men was found and that the general belief is the lynching report is 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 later 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).