Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Ten Black men held in a South Carolina jail were taken out by a mob in 1871, and most were hanged in the woods, according to a Springfield Weekly Republican account published that August. 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. Accounts of these events that the writers were given disagree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The newspaper reports that a vigilance committee took ten men from a South Carolina jail into the woods, where most were hanged.
Reported by: the newspaper's account (reporters).