Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A crowd took three men from the Jefferson jail in Texas, according to a November 1900 account in the Greene County Herald. The crowd overpowered the jailer and cut the telephone line so he could not reach the sheriff. The men were hanged from a railroad bridge across Cypress Bayou. The men are not named in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.