Dillard Wilson
Dillard Wilson, a Black man, was held in the custody of the Sumter chain gang in South Carolina. According to a dispatch from Lynchburg published in The Union Times, on November 24, 1914, a mob of about 100 men took him from the chain gang authorities and killed him on the banks of the Lynches River near Lynchburg. The dispatch says he was hanged and shot. It reports that law officers and other citizens pleaded with the mob to stop, but the men overpowered the authorities and took him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Lynchburg dispatch in The Union Times says a mob of about 100 men took him from the Sumter chain gang authorities and killed him, hanging him by his heels and shooting him repeatedly.
Reported by: Lynchburg dispatch in The Union Times (reporters).