Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Nine men held in the Bell County jail at Belton, Texas, were killed in their cells when a mob entered the jail, according to an account by Henry W. Blair printed in 1900. Blair said the jailer offered no resistance and handed the keys to the mob's leaders. This man's name, age, and exact date of death are not given in the account, and nothing else about him is recorded. The events Blair describes took place some years before the account was published.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Henry W. Blair's 1900 account says a mob entered the Belton, Texas jail, and the jailer handed over the keys, and the men in the cells were shot or stabbed to death.
Reported by: Henry W. Blair (reporters).