Name not reported

Four men held in the custody of the Abbeville County sheriff in South Carolina were taken from the jail and shot, according to a Charleston dispatch dated May 24, 1876 and published in the Juniata Sentinel And Republican on May 31. The dispatch says about three hundred people watched the killing and that more than one hundred shots were fired. The men are not named in the account.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Charleston despatch says a crowd took four men from the Abbeville County sheriff's custody and shot them.

Reported by: Charleston, S.C. despatch of May 24 (reporters).

Source

• Juniata Sentinel And Republican, May 31, 1876, page 2 Juniata Sentinel And Republican, May 31, 1876