Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Bellville jail in Austin County, Texas, was taken from his cell in August 1897 by a mob that broke the jail windows and cut the locks. The county judge urged the crowd to let the law take its course, but was ignored, and officers did not resist further. The mob hanged him from a tree in a grove east of town. The coroner's verdict was that he died by hanging at the hands of a mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The coroner ruled he was hanged at the hands of a mob that took him from the Bellville jail.
Reported by: coroner.