Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A white man held in the jail at Kershaw, South Carolina, was taken from it by a mob in October 1904, according to a dispatch published in The Evening Bulletin. The dispatch says the mob led him outside the town limits and hanged him from a tree. It reports that two shots were fired into his body as he hung. The man was killed while in custody, and the jail's handling of the mob is not described.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.