Harry

Harry, a Black man, was held in the Lancaster jail in Lancaster, South Carolina. On the morning of June 3, 1894, he was taken from the jail and lynched, according to a short 1894 dispatch in The Helena Independent. The dispatch gives no further details about the mob or whether the jail staff resisted, gave up the keys or handed him over.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The newspaper dispatch reports that a mob took him from the Lancaster jail and lynched him.

Reported by: newspaper dispatch.

Source

• The Helena Independent, June 4, 1894, page 1 The Helena Independent, June 4, 1894