Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to The Bryan Daily Eagle, a Mexican man was held in the jail at Watonga, Oklahoma Territory, in September 1896. The paper reported that a crowd took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree around September 15, 1896. A headline in the paper said the sheriff had been overpowered. The newspaper's account of the sheriff and jailers is recorded only in that headline.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd took the man from the Watonga jail and hanged him from a tree, according to the 1896 newspaper account.
Reported by: news reports.