Died in custody
Name not reported
A man held in the custody of a sheriff in South Carolina was taken from the sheriff by a mob on May 24, 1876, according to a dispatch datelined Charleston and printed in The Daily Argus. The dispatch says about three hundred people were present and that one hundred shots were fired, and that the mob shot him. He was one of four men held by the sheriff at the time.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.