Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On May 10, 1893, according to a Columbia, South Carolina, dispatch printed in the New-York Tribune, about 600 people took a Black man from the sheriff in Laurens and hanged him. The dispatch says a US senator was present and urged the crowd to be temperate. It does not say whether the sheriff resisted or gave up the man, and his name is not given.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Columbia, South Carolina, dispatch in a historical newspaper (reporters).