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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Kerr County, Texas

According to a Houston dispatch printed in the New York Herald on June 25, 1874, this person was one of four people reported taken from a jail in Kerr County, Texas, and hanged. The dispatch says a mob took them from the jail and killed them by hanging. The dispatch is dated June 24, 1874.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: Houston dispatch printed in a June 1874 newspaper (reporters).

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