Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

30 years old · died March 23, 1912 · Cherokee County, South Carolina

Joe, a Black man about 30 years old, was held in the jail at Blacksburg, South Carolina. Early one morning on March 23, 1912, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him to a rafter in a blacksmith shop. Authorities were reported to be investigating the killing.

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

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