Name not reported
According to a short 1897 dispatch from Austin, a mob of masked men went to the calaboose at Elgin, Texas, on Thursday night, March 4, and killed a Black man who was being held there. The account says the mob riddled him with bullets, and that the sheriff had been told a mob was storming the jail to take another prisoner. The dispatch does not say whether the sheriff resisted, gave up the keys, or handed the man over. The man's name is not given, and the OCR text of the page is garbled in this passage.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch from Austin says a mob of masked men riddled a Black man with bullets at Elgin after going to the calaboose where he was held.
Reported by: news dispatch from Austin (reporters).