Brown
Samuel Brown was held in the jail at Lockhart, Texas, in January 1884. A special dispatch from Lockhart, printed in the Savannah Morning News, reports that at about midnight on Sunday, January 20, a group of masked men took him from the jail and shot him to death. A San Marcos newspaper likewise reports that a mob took him from the jail, shot him and mutilated his body. Neither account names who held the keys or whether jail staff resisted the group.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch from Lockhart says a group of masked men took Samuel Brown from the town jail and shot him to death, and a second account says a mob took him from the jail, shot him and mutilated his body.
Reported by: special dispatch from Lockhart, Texas, in the Galveston newspaper (reporters); newspaper account of the Lockhart jail killing (reporters).