Died in custody
Name not reported
Two Mexican men were being taken from Gonzales County, Texas, toward San Diego in the custody of officers, according to a brief 1883 dispatch printed in the Plateau Gazette and East Tennessee News. The dispatch reports that about twenty-five men overpowered the officers escorting them. The two men were then lynched by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Plateau Gazette and East Tennessee News, reporting a brief dispatch (reporters).