Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was held in the county jail in Trinity, Texas, after being captured by a sheriff's posse. According to a Savannah newspaper, officers, fearing a lynching, took him out of the jail into the woods and tied him to a tree. A mob then took him from there and hanged him within 200 yards of the jail, and his body was found the next morning.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Trinity county jail (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.