Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
One of ten Black people taken from a jail by several hundred Ku Klux Klan members and killed, according to a congressional committee investigating Klan outrages in South Carolina, as reported in The Fremont Weekly Journal in August 1871. The committee described the Klan as acting under a military-style organization. The person's name, the date and the place of the killing are not given.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Congressional committee investigating Ku Klux outrages (outside investigators).