B. D. Reed
B. D. Reed died in his jail cell on October 20, 1887, according to The Anderson Intelligencer, which reported that he was found early that morning hanging by his shirt from the cell's window bars. The newspaper said the jail's report described his death as suicide. The same account says that earlier that night, another person held at the jail told a jailer that Reed was trying to kill himself, and that the jailer told them to leave him alone.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide (neglect alleged). A newspaper account of the jail's report says Reed hanged himself with his shirt from the cell window bars, and another prisoner says he told a jailer that night that Reed was trying to kill himself, but the jailer told them to leave him alone.
Reported by: jail report, as printed in a newspaper account (the agency that held him); another prisoner, as reported in the newspaper account (witnesses).