Died in jail or a lockup
John Tanner
John Tanner, a Black man, was held in the jail in Raleigh, South Carolina, one of three Black men held there at the time. According to the Wessington Springs Herald, a crowd of 75 to 100 masked men took him from the jail and hanged him. His death was a lynching from custody, in which the people holding him failed to protect him from the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched