Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Ten Black men held in a South Carolina jail were taken from it by a mob and killed, most of them hanged in the woods, according to the Springfield Weekly Republican in August 1871. The article says 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 article. The accounts the writers were given of these events disagree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). The article reports a mob of ten Black men taken from a South Carolina jail and hanged, but says the accounts the writers received disagree and does not say whether jail staff resisted.
Reported by: news reports.