Name not reported

A person whose name was 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 described the person as one of three people taken from the jail and hanged. The only date given is the dispatch date of June 24, 1874.

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