Died in jail or a lockup
John Campbell
John Campbell, a Black man, was held in the jail at Navasota, Texas, when a crowd took him from the jail on March 7, 1908. The crowd hanged him from a telegraph pole. One report says the crowd fired shots into his body before dispersing, and another describes the crowd as orderly. Accounts differ on the timing, with one placing the crowd's action on the Saturday afternoon.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took John Campbell from the Navasota, Texas, jail and hanged him from a telegraph pole in March 1908; the accounts do not say whether jail officers resisted or handed him over.
Reported by: news reports.