Died in custody
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name the Bartow dispatch published in The Topeka State Journal on May 31, 1895 does not give, was one of three men being moved under guard to a jail in Florida on May 30, 1895. According to that dispatch, about fifty masked men carrying rifles took him from the guards and killed him in a swamp. The dispatch attributes the account to Bartow dispatch reports. Another man taken in the same incident was beaten and ordered to leave the country.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Bartow dispatch says about fifty masked men took him from guards transporting him to jail and killed him in a swamp.
Reported by: Bartow dispatch (reporters).