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, which published the account in August 1871. The paper said a vigilance committee was formed after a man arrived from Columbia with what was described as a writ of habeas corpus. The men were then taken into the woods, where most were hanged. Their deaths followed the mob's removal of them from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The newspaper reports that a vigilance committee took the men from the jail into the woods and hanged most of them, and that the accounts it received of these events disagree.
Reported by: the newspaper's account of the South Carolina jail lynching (reporters).