Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Several Black men held in the county jail in Washington County, Texas, were taken from it by a mob and hanged. The Austin Weekly Statesman wrote about the killings in an February 1889 editorial responding to a United States Senate committee report on the county's election disputes. The editorial disputes the committee's account of why the men were killed and calls that account unfair.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A U.S. Senate committee report, as described in the editorial, says a mob hanged several Black men taken from a county jail, and the editorial disputes the committee's account of why they were killed.
Reported by: United States Senate committee on elections; the editorial's newspaper (reporters).