Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A congressional committee report on Ku Klux Klan outrages, reprinted in the Worcester Daily Spy in 1871, says several Black people held at the Union County jail in South Carolina were taken out and killed by a mob. The report puts the mob at about five hundred Klansmen, well organized and gathered from surrounding counties at a set time. The account comes from the committee's findings as printed in the newspaper.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A congressional committee report says a mob of about five hundred Klansmen took several Black prisoners from the Union County jail and murdered them.
Reported by: congressional committee report on Ku Klux Klan outrages, reprinted in the Worcester Daily Spy.