Harry Cook
Harry Cook was held in the jail at Bryan, Texas, in July 1874. According to newspaper accounts, an armed mob of more than two hundred men took him from the jail and hanged and shot him, while the jail was guarded by dozens of men who could not prevent it. One report gives a guard of seventy-three men and another gives forty-three, and neither account says whether the sheriff or jailers resisted or handed him over. The articles give no official account of the death and no date beyond their publication, and no one has said whether officers resisted.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about two hundred men took Harry Cook from the Bryan jail, hanged and shot him, and the jail guards could not prevent it.
Reported by: Las Vegas Gazette (reporters).