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According to testimony Job E. Stevenson cited before the Joint Select Committee, and reported in the New-York Tribune in September 1871, a Ku Klux Klan mob broke open the Union County jail in South Carolina and killed Black men held there in a single night. Stevenson's account puts the number at eight, though the printed text is garbled at that point.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Job E. Stevenson, quoting testimony before the Joint Select Committee, says a Ku-Klux mob broke open the Union County jail and killed the men held there.

Reported by: Job E. Stevenson, citing testimony before the Joint Select Committee.

Source

• New-York Tribune, September 11, 1871, page 4 New-York Tribune, September 11, 1871