Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An armed mob broke into a jail in a Texas town on Sunday night, October 3, 1886, took a Black man from his cell, and dragged him about a quarter of a mile before hanging him from a tree. His name is garbled in the scanned newspaper text and cannot be read, so it is not given here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper report of the 1886 lynching (reporters).