Name not reported
A Black man held in the lockup at Barrell, South Carolina, was taken out and shot to death, according to news reported from Columbia in late December 1905. Sheriff Creech wired Governor Heyward that the killing was a brutal murder carried out in open daylight and that officers were guilty of dereliction of duty. The sheriff said he was preparing arrests and that the governor would support him in doing so.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (neglect alleged). Sheriff Creech wired Governor Heyward that a mob shot the man to death in open daylight after taking him from the lockup, and he said the officers were guilty of dereliction of duty.
Reported by: Sheriff Creech (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.