Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A person whose name was not recorded was one of four people a mob took from the Kerr County jail in Texas and hanged, according to a Houston dispatch printed in The New York Herald on June 25, 1874. The dispatch is dated June 24, 1874. The person had been held in the custody of the jail when the mob seized them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Houston dispatch printed in a June 1874 newspaper (reporters).