Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail at Marshall, Texas, was taken out by a mob and hanged to a willow tree, according to a brief telegraph item published in The Ocala Banner on October 9, 1903. The report gives no name, no exact date of death, and no account of how the jail or its officers responded. Nothing else about the person's life or the circumstances of the mob's entry is recorded in this source.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.