Gabriel Murrell
Gabriel Murrell was held in the jail in Augusta, Georgia. According to a Savannah newspaper reprinted in the Chicago Daily Tribune in August 1874, crowds had gathered and a large body of men went to the jail at night and ordered the jailer to open the gate. The paper's headline said he was taken from the jail and killed by gunfire. The paper said a rumor had spread that the men held there would be lynched.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Savannah newspaper headline, reprinted in the Chicago Daily Tribune, says a mob took him from the Augusta jail and riddled him with bullets, but the article text breaks off before describing his death.
Reported by: Savannah (Ga.) newspaper, reprinted in the Chicago Daily Tribune (reporters).