Name not reported
In 1871, according to the Springfield Weekly Republican, a mob took ten Black men out of a South Carolina jail and killed them. The paper reports that 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 this account. The paper says the accounts it received of these events disagree with one another.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A vigilance committee took ten Black men from a South Carolina jail into the woods, and most were hanged, according to a historical newspaper account whose descriptions of the events conflict with other accounts.
Reported by: historical newspaper report.