Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This person was one of nine people held in the jail at Belton, Texas, in June 1874. According to a New Orleans Republican account published that month, about one hundred armed, mounted men entered the town at midnight and broke open the jail. The paper reported that the men took out the prisoners and shot them, and this person was among those killed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A group of about one hundred armed, mounted men broke open the Belton, Texas jail at midnight and shot the prisoners, according to an 1874 newspaper account.
Reported by: news reports.