Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Six Black men were taken from a jail at a courthouse in South Carolina early on Thursday, January 5, 1871, according to a telegraphic dispatch from Columbia printed in the Evening Star. The jail was broken open around one o'clock that morning, and the men were taken out and shot. The dispatch names none of the six men and does not say who fired, or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted or handed over the keys. This entry covers one of those six men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch to the Chronicle reports that a mob broke open the jail and shot six men taken from it.
Reported by: special dispatch to the Chronicle (reporters).