Sam Brown
Samuel Brown was held in the jail at Lockhart, Texas, in January 1884. According to a special dispatch from Lockhart, a group of masked men took him from the jail around midnight on Sunday and shot him to death. The Indianapolis Journal reported that the telegraph wire was cut about a mile from town. One account says a young man named Brown had been accused of killing an older man named Ursery a few months earlier, and that his body was mutilated, but the accusation is not repeated here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch from Lockhart, Texas, reports that a group of masked men took Samuel Brown from the town jail around midnight and shot him to death.
Reported by: special dispatch from Lockhart, as reported in the Galveston newspaper (reporters).