Name not reported
Ten Black men held in a South Carolina jail were taken out by a mob and killed, according to the Springfield Weekly Republican in 1871. The paper says a vigilance committee was formed after a man arrived from Columbia carrying what was described as a writ of habeas corpus, and that the men were taken into the woods, where most were hanged. The men are not named in the account, which is one of several accounts of these events that disagree with one another.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). A newspaper account says a vigilance committee took ten Black men from a South Carolina jail into the woods and hanged most of them, but the accounts the writers received disagree about the events.
Reported by: news reports.