Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On December 21, 1889, eight Black men held in a jail in South Carolina were taken out by a mob and shot, according to a brief newspaper roundup published in January 1890. The men are not named in the account, and no ages are given. The roundup does not describe how the jail was breached or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted or handed the men over. Because the report is a short roundup of disasters and crimes, the details of the killings come only from that single brief item.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched