Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
One of three Black men was held in a jail at Bendon, Texas, when a group of citizens took him from it, according to a Galveston News report reprinted in The New North-West in January 1875. The group hanged him from a tree near Bendon. He was killed by a mob that had taken him from the custody of the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: the Galveston News (reporters).