Deaths in Custody
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Alfred Dublin

25 years old · died March 13, 1912 · South Carolina

Alfred Dublin, 25, was one of three men being taken by two constables from Olar toward the Bamberg county jail in South Carolina. According to the Montgomery Advertiser, a mob of 75 to 100 men stopped the officers at Odom's Bridge, about seven miles from Olar, took the three men from them, and shot them. The newspaper reported the killing as a lynching carried out on the afternoon of March 13, 1912.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

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