Died in custody
Name not reported
On May 24, 1876, according to a dispatch datelined Charleston and published in The Daily Argus, a mob took one of four men held in a South Carolina sheriff's custody and shot him. The dispatch says about three hundred people were present and that one hundred shots were fired. The man's name and age are not given.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.