Carlos Munoz
Carlos Munoz was being taken by officers to the Lockhart jail on February 16, 1905, when a mob ambushed them on the road near Dale in Caldwell County, Texas. According to the San Antonio Daily Light, the officers said they ran out of ammunition while defending him and could not protect him, and the mob hanged him from a tree. A Houston dispatch gave a different account, reporting that the mob shot him to death. The hanging is the account given in the other papers.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). The officers said they ran out of ammunition defending him and could not protect him, and a Houston dispatch reported he was shot to death by the mob, while the hanging from a tree is the account in the other reports.
Reported by: officers escorting him to the Lockhart jail (the agency that held him); Associated Press dispatch datelined Smithville, Texas (reporters); Houston dispatch (reporters).