Died in custody
William Rawls
William Rawls, a Black man, was taken from the guards at Newnansville in Alachua County, Florida, on the night of April 1, 1895, according to a Jacksonville dispatch published in The Morning News on April 4, 1895. The next morning his body was found hanging from a limb and riddled with bullets. The dispatch calls his death a lynching. The dispatch does not say whether the guards resisted the mob or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Jacksonville newspaper dispatch (reporters).