Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black people were being held in a jail in Texas in November 1900. On November 15, 1900, a mob took them from the jail and hanged them, according to a chronology of 1900 lynchings printed in the Perrysburg Journal in January 1901. Their deaths are recorded in that chronology.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Chronicling America newspaper chronology of 1900 lynchings (reporters).