Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An unidentified Black man was being held in jails on the way from Bonifay toward Pensacola, Florida, where county officers were trying to bring him for temporary protection. On July 6, 1913, a crowd took him from a railway train at Milton, hanged him from a telegraph pole and then shot him, according to a wire report printed in the Topeka State Journal. The report says the crowd of men did this, and it does not describe the officers' response.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Topeka State Journal wire report (reporters).