Name not reported
According to Judge Van Trump, as reprinted in the New York Herald in August 1871, men held in the Chester jail in South Carolina were taken out by an armed vigilance committee and executed without trial. The judge's account presents the killings as a response to earlier violence and disputes a radical claim that ten Black men were taken from the jail and murdered. The article says one prisoner was released after a white man said he was believed to be innocent. The victims are not named, and the number killed is not stated.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). Judge Van Trump, as cited by the New York Herald, says an armed vigilance committee took men from the Chester jail and executed them without trial, while a radical statement says ten Black men were taken out and murdered, which the judge disputes.
Reported by: Judge Van Trump (as cited by the New York Herald) (court); New York Herald (reporters); a radical statement.