Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to an Associated Press dispatch published in the Tonopah Daily Bonanza, a mob took a woman from the jail in Galveston on the night of June 24, 1917, and hanged her. She was being held in that jail's custody when she was seized. The report gives her race as white and her sex as female, but her name is not legible in this copy of the paper.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Associated Press dispatch (reporters).