Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was taken by force from the jail at Rifugio and killed, according to a brief item in the Dallas Daily Herald published on March 24, 1881. The item reports the killing as a mob's act, and the only account of it here is that single newspaper report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Dallas Daily Herald (reporters).