Alston

Alston, a man who had lived in Texas, was taken from a jail there by a mob of friends of a Dr. Stewart and hanged, according to an 1880 account reprinted in The Anderson Intelligencer. The paper presents the account as unverified and sets it within a wider story about a pair of pistols. The article gives no name for the jail, county or date of the killing.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An unsourced 1880 newspaper account says a mob of friends of a Dr. Stewart took Alston from a Texas jail and hanged him.

Reported by: The Anderson Intelligencer, reprinting an unsourced account (reporters).

Source

• The Anderson Intelligencer, February 19, 1880, page 4 The Anderson Intelligencer, February 19, 1880