Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Boston, Texas

A man whose surname is garbled in the scanned 1916 Hickman Courier text was taken from the jail at Boston, Texas, and hanged to a tree about half a mile south of town. The account says a mob took him from the jail and killed him.

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

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