Died in jail or a lockup
Mose Spellman
Mose Spellman, a 24-year-old Black man, was one of six Black men held in the Hemphill jail in Sabine County, Texas. Around midnight on June 21, 1908, about 150 armed men came to the jail, overpowered the sheriff after he refused to give up his keys, and took the six men out. According to The Waxahachie Daily Light, five of the men were hanged from a limb of a nearby tree and one was shot as he ran. The Pensacola Journal's Associated Press dispatch names him among the six men a mob took from the jail and hanged from a tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody