Name not reported
A Black man was among ten men held in a South Carolina jail who were taken out and killed by a mob, according to a report in the Springfield Weekly Republican in August 1871. The paper said a vigilance committee formed after a man arrived from Columbia carrying what was described as a writ of habeas corpus, and the men were taken into the woods, where most were hanged. It is unclear from the accounts whether jail staff resisted the mob, gave up the keys or handed the men over. The accounts the paper received of these events disagree with one another on details.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). A newspaper account says a vigilance committee took ten Black men from a South Carolina jail into the woods and hanged most of them, but the accounts the writers received disagree about the events.
Reported by: news reports.