Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Goose Creek jail in Texas was taken from the jail on the afternoon of September 21, 1917, and killed by a mob of oil field workers. One report puts the crowd at about 800 people and another at about 500. Reports describe him as a cook for an oil contractor, and none of the accounts gives his name. Whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed him over is not stated in the reports.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Newspaper reports say a mob of oil field workers, put at 500 to 800, took the man from the Goose Creek jail and hanged him.
Reported by: 1917 newspaper dispatches (reporters).