Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to an editorial in The Weekly Democratic Statesman published May 24, 1877, a mob broke open the jail at Groesbeck and hanged prisoners held there. The editorial, which called the killings the most terrible of the town's recent tragedies, does not name the people who died. The paper's account gives no count of how many were killed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.