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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died December 23, 1920 · Cooke County Jail, Texas

A man, whose name the sources do not give, was held in a Texas county jail in December 1920. Shortly after midnight on December 23, a mob of masked men took him from his cell, overpowering the jailer and his assistant to do so. The men hanged him from a tree and fired several shots into his body before leaving.

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

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