K F Northcote
K. Frank Northoote was placed under guard at a house in Cedar Mill, Texas, after a shooting involving Constable Crabtree, according to a Galveston News dispatch carried by the Salt Lake Herald. The Daily Republican reports that a masked mob took him from the guard at night, carried him across the Red River into the Indian Territory and shot him dead. The Galveston dispatch says he was riddled with bullets. Whether the guards resisted the mob or handed him over is not described in these accounts.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked mob took him from the guard at the constable's house at night, carried him into the Indian Territory and shot him dead, according to a Galveston News special dispatch from Cedar Mills.
Reported by: Galveston News special dispatch from Cedar Mills (reporters).