Name not reported

A person whose name is not recorded was reportedly taken from the jail at Clinton, DeWitt County, Texas, and hanged, according to a Houston dispatch printed in the New York Herald in June 1874. The dispatch is dated June 24, 1874, and that is the only date the account offers for the death.

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

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

Source

• The New York Herald, June 25, 1874, page 7 The New York Herald, June 25, 1874