Died in custody
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name is not recorded in the news dispatch, was being held by officers in Sweet Home, Texas, in June 1894, according to a report datelined there. The dispatch says a mob took him from the officers holding him and hanged him. It describes him only as the second man arrested with another, and it gives no name, age, facility or exact date. The report had not been confirmed when the Waterbury Evening Democrat printed it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch datelined Sweet Home, Texas, reports that a mob took a Black man from the officers holding him and hanged him.
Reported by: news dispatch datelined Sweet Home, Tex. (reporters).