Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died February 13, 1890

According to the Columbia Banner, a Black man held in a jail was taken by a mob and lynched on February 13, 1890. The paper, which reported the death on February 20, 1890, placed the case in Camden, where it began. A mob took him from the custody of the jail that held him and killed him.

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

Reported by: Columbia Banner (reporters).

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