Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a jail was taken from his cell by a mob and hanged from a cottonwood tree, according to a 1894 newspaper account. The paper reports that the sheriff and a company of militia withdrew after the mob promised they would give him a hearing, and that the mob then broke that promise. The name of the man, the exact location and the date of the killing are not clear in the surviving text, and the account is not otherwise known to be complete.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The sheriff and militia withdrew after the mob promised the man a hearing, and the mob then hanged him from a cottonwood tree.
Reported by: news reports.