Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Col. Potter, described in an 1881 newspaper item as a well-known citizen of Galveston, Texas, was killed. The paper reports that people taken for the killing were removed from the jail by a mob and lynched. The item does not name those who died or say how the mob reached them, and it does not say whether the jailers resisted or handed them over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.