Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a city jail in South Carolina was taken from the jail by a mob shortly after midnight on April 16, 1920, according to a record of the case. The mob shot him, dragged his body through the streets to a railroad bridge on the edge of the city, and hanged him there before a large crowd. The account says the sheriff did not resist the mob in any meaningful way. His name and the city are not recorded because the surviving newspaper text is too garbled to read them reliably.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took him from the city jail, shot him, and hanged him from a railroad bridge, according to the paper.
Reported by: news reports.