Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a report from the Galveston News, reprinted in The New North-West in January 1875, a Black man held in the jail near Bendon, Texas, was taken from it by a group of citizens and hanged from a tree. The account gives no name, age, or exact date for him, and it does not say how the jailer or sheriff responded to the group. He was one of three men killed in this way, as the report describes them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Galveston News reported that a group of citizens took him from a jail and hanged him from a tree near Bendon.
Reported by: the Galveston News (reporters).