Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Blanc City, Texas, was taken from custody on the night of Wednesday, August 26, 1885, according to a secondhand report carried by the Helena Weekly Herald. The paper says about sixty unmasked men stormed the jail and overpowered the sheriff, then carried him to a neighboring grove and hanged him from a tree. A stage driver who arrived in Austin said the body was still hanging the next morning. His name is garbled in the newspaper's text and cannot be confirmed from this account, and no other details about him are given.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A stage driver who reached Austin said a mob of about sixty men stormed the Blanc City jail, overpowered the sheriff, and hanged the man from a tree in a nearby grove.
Reported by: stage driver who arrived in Austin (witnesses).