Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A person held under guard in a courthouse was taken from that custody and killed by a mob, according to a newspaper editor's account reprinted in the Dallas Daily Herald in July 1874. The editor spoke out against the mob's action. The account gives no name or other details of the person who died.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: a Texas newspaper editor's account reprinted in this paper (reporters).