Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held at the jail of Star County, Texas, was killed on March 24, 1876, when soldiers forced their way into the jail, according to a Brownsville dispatch published in Galveston and reprinted in the Helena Weekly Herald. The dispatch says others held in the jail were wounded. Soldiers are named as the ones who broke in and killed him, and the account gives no further detail of the events.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Galveston dispatch reports that soldiers forced the Star County jail and killed a man held there.
Reported by: Galveston dispatch (Brownsville special to the News) (reporters).