Name not reported

According to a Texas newspaper account reprinted in The National Era in August 1851, a mob took a Black man from the jail in Austin, Texas, where he was being held. The account says a committee sent from a gathering at the Capitol was refused admittance by the jailer. The crowd then broke into the jail, took him, and hanged him without any legal process.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The National Era, reprinting a Texas newspaper account, says a mob broke open the Austin jail, took the man and hanged him.

Reported by: The National Era (reprinting a Texas newspaper) (reporters).

News report

• The National Era, August 28, 1851, page 2 The National Era, August 28, 1851