Name not reported
Ten Black men held in a South Carolina jail in 1871 were taken out by a mob, and most were hanged in the woods, according to the Springfield Weekly Republican. 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. The men are not named in the account, and it does not say whether jail staff resisted or handed them over. The accounts the paper received of these events disagree with one another.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). The article reports that a mob took ten Black men from a South Carolina jail and most were hanged, while the accounts the writers received disagree about the events.
Reported by: news reports.