Died in custody
Name not reported
In May 1895, a Bartow dispatch reported that one of three Black men being moved under guard to a jail in Florida was taken from the guards by about fifty masked men carrying rifles and killed in a swamp. 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. A Bartow dispatch says a masked mob of about fifty men took him from guards who were moving him to a jail and killed him in a swamp.
Reported by: Bartow dispatch (reporters).