Tom W. Vickery
Tom Vickery, a 30-year-old man, had worked as a service car driver, according to one report. He was held in the Fort Worth jail when, shortly after midnight on December 23, 1920, a mob of about twenty-five masked men arrived in automobiles and took him from his cell. Accounts differ on how they got in: one says they overpowered the jailer and his assistants, while another says they threatened the guards and obtained the keys. The men hanged him from a tree, and one report says several shots were fired into his body. Police said they did not know who the men were, and a grand jury investigation was expected.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of masked men overpowered the jailer and his assistants, took Tom Vickery from his cell in the Fort Worth county jail and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: news reports.