Died in custody
Mooney Allen
Mooney Allen, a Black man, was in the custody of a sheriff's posse on July 23, 1903, as he was being taken by carriage into Beaumont, Texas. He got out of the carriage and ran through the main streets, and a crowd of hundreds pursued him, firing more than a hundred shots and hitting him about a dozen times. The dispatch says he had a pistol and turned to fire into the crowd before he fell. He died in the street.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch reports that a crowd of hundreds shot him about a dozen times after he ran from the sheriff's posse taking him to Beaumont.
Reported by: news dispatch.