Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Fort Mason, Texas, was one of seven men taken from the jail by a mob and hanged from a tree, according to an account Capt. A. W. Barrett gave a Washington Star reporter, printed in The Morning News on March 24, 1893. The account gives no name for him or for any of the other men. It says the men were hanged so hastily that some were left dangling until pursuers cut them down.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Capt. A. W. Barrett, recounting to a Washington Star reporter, says a mob took the men from the Fort Mason jail and hanged them from a tree.
Reported by: Capt. A. W. Barrett (the agency that held him); Washington Star (reporters).