Died in jail or a lockup
Jim Gilmore
Jim Gilmore was a 20-year-old Black man held in the guard house in Luray, a small town in Hampton County, South Carolina. In November 1908, shortly after midnight, a mob took him from the guard house and lynched him. A Montgomery newspaper account described the killing as the work of a mob, and a Virginia paper described it as the work of a party of enraged citizens.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.