Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black people were taken from the jail at Aiken, South Carolina, in October 1926 and lynched by a mob, according to a New York Times editorial reprinted in the Savannah Tribune on October 28, 1926. The editorial does not name them. It describes the killing as a mob acting in defiance of the courts, and says the law had already been put into operation in this case.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: New York Times editorial, reprinted in the Savannah Tribune (reporters).