Name not reported
A Black man, the second of two men arrested and placed in a lockup at Barrell, South Carolina, was taken out and shot to death with guns and pistols by a mob, according to news received at Columbia in late December 1905. Sheriff Creech wired Governor Heyward that the killing was a murder carried out in open daylight and that officers were guilty of dereliction of duty. The sheriff said he was preparing arrests, and Governor Heyward said he would support him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Sheriff Creech wired Governor Heyward that a mob shot the man to death after taking him from a lockup, and said 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.