Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Grosbeak, Texas, dispatch printed in the Abilene Weekly Reflector in April 1906, a Black man being taken to jail by two officers was seized from them by a group of citizens. The crowd held him until the arrival of a girl's father. The report says the father ordered the crowd back and fired a loaded shotgun into the man, killing him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Abilene Weekly Reflector, citing a Grosbeak, Texas dispatch, reports that a posse seized him from two officers taking him to jail and that a girl's father shot him with a shotgun.
Reported by: Abilene Weekly Reflector, citing a Grosbeak, Tex. dispatch (reporters).