Deaths in CustodyWork in progressIn progress
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Kerr County, Texas

A Houston dispatch printed in The New York Herald on June 25, 1874, reported that a mob took them from the jail in Kerr County, Texas, and hanged them, one of four people said to have been killed this way. The dispatch is dated June 24, 1874. It does not say how the jail's officers or sheriff responded to the mob.

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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