Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Texas jail was taken from custody by a mob in September 1917 and lynched, according to a brief wire item in the South Bend News-Times. The page is too damaged to show his name or the town where this happened. The item describes the mob taking him from the jail, and it is his killing that the record records.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.