Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Six Black men held in a Florida county jail were taken by a masked mob early on a Sunday morning, May 21, 1911, and shot to death. The sheriff's young son was tricked by a false telegram into handing the men over to the mob. Citizens found the bodies at daybreak. The men were in the custody of the county jail when the mob took them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked mob took six Black men from a Florida county jail and shot them to death, after the sheriff's young son was tricked into handing them over with a bogus telegram.
Reported by: news reports.