Name not reported
According to press dispatches carried by the New Orleans Republican, the New Orleans Bulletin and the New Orleans Democrat, a party of United States soldiers forced the Starr County jail in Texas in late March 1876. The dispatches say one man held in the jail was killed and two others were wounded in the attack. The soldiers, the dispatches say, broke into a jail where men were being held, and the man who died was among them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Press dispatches report that a party of U.S. soldiers forced the Starr County jail and killed one Mexican man held there, an account the reports themselves describe as unverified.
Reported by: Galveston News dispatch (reporters); The New Orleans Democrat, citing reports (reporters).