Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
One of nine men held in the Bell County jail at Belton, Texas, was killed in his cell when a mob entered the jail. According to Henry W. Blair's account printed in The Times in 1900, the jailer offered no resistance and handed the keys over to the mob's leaders. The account describes events some years earlier and gives no name, age, or exact date for this man.
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 man was killed in his cell.
Reported by: Henry W. Blair.