Name not reported
According to a telephone message from Mineola, reported in a Dallas dispatch, a Black man was being held in the jail at Quitman, the county seat of Wood County, Texas. On the night of October 23, 1901, a mob of farmers reportedly broke into the jail, took him from it, and killed him by lynching. The message attributes this account to telephone reports, and the dispatch was published in The St. Louis Republic on October 26, 1901.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telephone message from Mineola, reported in a Dallas dispatch, says a mob of farmers stormed the Wood County jail at Quitman and took a Black man from the officials holding him.
Reported by: telephone message from Mineola, reported in a Dallas dispatch (reporters).