One of 4 people whose names were not reported
Three Black men held in the Rusk County jail in Henderson, Texas, were taken from the jail by a mob in the early hours of Sunday, November 12, 1905. Sheriff Stone and his deputies stood at the jail door and asked the crowd to let the court act, but about ten men overpowered the officers. When the mob could not get the keys, they broke the doors open with chisels and hammers, and the three men were hanged. After the mob dispersed, their bodies were cut down and placed in a courthouse corridor.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob broke into the Henderson county jail, took three men and hanged them, after Sheriff Stone asked the crowd to wait for the court to act.
Reported by: Henderson county jail reporting in the 1905 newspaper account (reporters).