Antonio Rodriguez
Antonio Rodriguez, 20, lived at Las Vacas, Mexico, across from Del Rio, Texas. On the night of November 3, 1910, he was held in the jail at Rock Springs, Texas, when a crowd of several thousand people stormed the building, overpowered the guard, and took him to a pyre outside town, where he was burned. The coroner's verdict attributed the killing to unknown parties, and a district judge later told a grand jury that the seizure and killing had broken the law, which led the grand jury to open an investigation. Accounts differ on whether the sheriff or the guard was overpowered.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Antonio Rodriguez from the Rock Springs, Texas jail, overpowered the guard and burned him at the stake, according to news dispatches; the coroner's verdict called him an unknown Mexican burned by unknown parties.
Reported by: the county coroner; Herald dispatch (reporters); San Antonio dispatch citing Rock Springs message (reporters); district judge told grand jury.