Name not reported
In 1871, several Black men held at the Chester jail in South Carolina were taken out by a vigilance committee and killed, according to a Washington dispatch reprinted in the Daily Kennebec Journal. That dispatch says about ten men were killed this way and that one was released after a white man said he believed him innocent. The Worcester Daily Spy, reporting remarks by Judge Van Trump of a congressional Ku Klux subcommittee, gives the same count of ten. The dispatch itself calls the facts it reports partisan, so the number killed and the details of what happened at the jail remain unverified.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). A Washington dispatch reprinted in the Daily Kennebec Journal says a Vigilance Committee took about ten Black men from the Chester jail and killed them, a claim it calls broadly alleged and partisan; a Worcester Daily Spy report of Judge Van Trump's remarks also describes prisoners taken from the jail and killed by a vigilance committee.
Reported by: Washington dispatch reprinted in the Daily Kennebec Journal (reporters); Worcester Daily Spy, reporting on Judge Van Trump's congressional Ku Klux sub-committee remarks (reporters).