Name not reported

Eight Black prisoners were reportedly taken from a South Carolina jail and shot, according to a brief December 1889 newspaper dispatch. The report gives no names or ages for those killed. It describes the killings as a lynching from custody, though it does not say who took the men or how the jail responded. The dispatch says details had not yet been received.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• The Evening World, December 28, 1889, page 1 The Evening World, December 28, 1889