Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name is garbled in the archived 1886 text, was being held by guards when a mob took him from them on Monday night, November 29, 1886. According to a Fort Worth, Texas news dispatch printed in the Rock Island Daily Argus on December 3, 1886, the mob hanged him from a tree near the Red River in the Choctaw Nation. The dispatch is the only account of his death, and it gives no statement from him or his family.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Fort Worth, Texas news dispatch says a mob took the man from guards holding him and hanged him near the Red River in the Choctaw Nation.
Reported by: Fort Worth, Tex. news dispatch (reporters).