Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the Bell County jail at Belton, Texas, was one of nine men killed in their cells when a mob entered the jail. Henry W. Blair's account, printed in The Times in 1900, says the jailer offered no resistance and handed the keys over to the mob's leaders. The mob then killed the men held there.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Henry W. Blair's 1900 account says a mob entered the Belton, Texas, county jail, the jailer handed over the keys, and the man was killed in his cell.
Reported by: Henry W. Blair.