Died in custody
Name not reported
On May 30, 1895, a Black man being moved under guard toward a jail near Bartow, Florida, was taken from the guards by about fifty masked men carrying rifles, according to a Bartow dispatch. The dispatch says the men carried him into a swamp and killed him there. Another man taken in the same incident was beaten and ordered to leave the country, the Topeka State Journal reported.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Bartow dispatch reported that about fifty masked men took him from the guards moving him to a jail and killed him in a swamp.
Reported by: Bartow dispatch (reporters).