Name not reported
A Black man was being taken to jail near Groesbeck, Texas, in April 1906 in the custody of two officers. According to The New Haven Union, a group of citizens took him from the officers and held him until J. A. Eastland, a farmer of Delta, arrived. The paper reports that Eastland fired both barrels of a shotgun into him, killing him instantly. The mob that seized him from custody is the reason his death is recorded as a lynching from custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A group of citizens took him from two officers near Groesbeck, Texas, and the girl's father, J. A. Eastland, fired both barrels of a shotgun into him, according to the newspaper account.
Reported by: the newspaper account (Texas, 1906) (reporters).