Bob Saxon
Bob Saxon, a Black man, was held in the jail at Orange, Texas, in August 1881. Newspaper accounts drawn from telegrams say that around midnight a band of citizens broke open the jail, took him and another Black man out, and shot them to death, with their bodies said to be riddled with bullets. The accounts differ on whether the killings happened on August 21 or 22. The Brookhaven Ledger reported that the two men had surrendered themselves before they were shot.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telegram reported that a band of citizens broke open the Orange, Texas jail at about midnight, took Bob Saxon out and shot him to death.
Reported by: Special Telegram to the N. O. Times (reporters); Special telegram to the New Orleans Times, as reprinted in the Louisiana Capitolian (reporters); a telegram to the New Orleans Democrat, as printed in the St. Landry Democrat (reporters); The Brookhaven Ledger (reporters).