Sam Dyer
Sam Dyer and his brother Eli were held in the jail at Bonham, Texas, in June 1885. According to a Texas report carried by the Savannah Morning News, a masked mob of about 100 men woke the jailer at gunpoint and demanded the keys, and the jailer handed them over. The mob took Sam from his cell, carried him a few hundred yards and hanged him from a tree, and the report gave strangulation as the cause of death. One account places the killing at Pottsboro rather than Bonham, and the accounts differ on that point.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked mob of about 100 men woke the jailer at gunpoint, demanded the keys, and took Sam Dyer from his cell and hanged him, according to the Savannah Morning News citing a Texas report.
Reported by: Savannah Morning News (reporters).