Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to the headline of an Abilene Weekly Reflector report published April 3, 1902, a mob took a Black man from a jail and hanged him. The headline says he declared his innocence before he was killed. He was held at the jail the mob entered, and the mob took him from there to be hanged.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.