Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An elderly Black man was held in a jail when a mob took him out and killed him, according to news reports quoted in a July 1919 El Paso Herald editorial. The editorial says the killing happened on the spot. The account of his death comes from those news reports, as the editorial presents them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. News reports quoted in a newspaper editorial say a mob took an elderly Black man from a jail and lynched him.
Reported by: news reports quoted in the editorial.