Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a column by Norman Thomas published in The Arizona Times on December 3, 1926, a Black person was held in a South Carolina jail. A mob took them from the jail and killed them. The column describes this as the third such killing and says police officers were alleged to have been accomplices.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Norman Thomas, in a 1926 opinion column, says a mob took a Black man from a South Carolina jail and killed him, with police officers alleged to be accomplices.
Reported by: Norman Thomas, author of the 1926 column (reporters).