Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black men were being taken by an officer to the Falls County jail near Rosebud, Texas, in May 1897, according to a Waco news dispatch printed in the El Paso Daily Herald. A mob took the men from the officer and hanged them. The dispatch gives neither their names nor their ages.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Waco news dispatch reports that a mob took three men from an officer while they were being taken to the Falls County jail and hanged them.
Reported by: Waco news dispatch (reporters).