Died in custody
Name not reported
Two men named Terry were taken from officers on Friday night, December 1, 1882, and hanged from a tree in Texas, according to a Dallas dispatch printed in the Eureka Daily Sentinel on December 5, 1882. The dispatch says a mob seized them from the officers holding them. The report says the lynchings were believed to have broken up a gang.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Dallas dispatch says two men named Terry were taken from officers and hanged from a tree.
Reported by: Dallas dispatch printed in the Eureka Daily Sentinel (reporters).