Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
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