Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On May 28, 1895, four men being taken under guard to a jail in western Florida were seized by about fifty masked men with rifles, who took them from the guards and led them into a swamp. Three of the four were killed there, and this Black man was one of them. According to a report in the Anaconda Standard, the fourth man was beaten and ordered to leave the country. That account says he was too frightened to speak about what happened to the others.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper report says about fifty masked men with rifles took four men from their guards while they were being taken to a jail in western Florida and killed three of them in a swamp.
Reported by: newspaper report.