Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died November 1883 · Commanche, Texas

A man named Bailey was one of two brothers held in the jail at Commanche, Texas, in November 1883. About fifty masked men broke into the jail, took both brothers, and hanged them from a tree in the graveyard about a mile from town.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report