Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This Black person was one of ten people whom several hundred Ku Klux Klan members took from a jail and killed, according to a congressional committee investigating Klan outrages in South Carolina. The committee said the Klan acted under a military-style organization. The account gives no name, date or place for this person, and it does not say how the jail or its officers responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Congressional committee investigating Ku Klux outrages (outside investigators).