Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Six Black men were taken from a jail at a courthouse in South Carolina in the early hours of Thursday, January 5, 1871, according to a short dispatch from Columbia printed in the Evening Star. The dispatch says the jail was broken open around one o'clock that morning and the six men were taken out and shot. Their names are not given in this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch to the Chronicle reports that a jail was broken open and six men were taken out and shot.
Reported by: special dispatch to the Chronicle (reporters).