Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a Texas jail was taken out by masked men and hanged, according to a New Orleans Picayune account reprinted in the Eureka Daily Sentinel in April 1879. The paper said the mob was made up of his former associates, who killed him to keep him from turning state's evidence. The article gives no name, exact date, or county for the death, and the account of the mob's motive is the paper's claim, not an established fact.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The New Orleans Picayune, as reported by the Eureka Daily Sentinel, says masked men took a prisoner from a Texas jail and hanged him.
Reported by: New Orleans Picayune (via Eureka Daily Sentinel) (reporters).