Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the city jail at Weimar, Texas, died on Monday, August 29, 1904, when a group of men broke into the jail. According to George Best, a traveling man, as reported by the Rice Belt Journal, the men took him from his locked cage, roped him, and hauled him up to the top of the cage, leaving him there. The constable found him hanging dead when he came to bring him out, after going to the depot to meet the county attorney.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. George Best, a traveling man, told the Journal that a group of white men broke into the Weimar city jail, roped the man and hanged him from the top of his cage.
Reported by: George Best, a traveling man, as reported by the Journal (witnesses).