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, according to the Springfield Weekly Republican, which reported that a vigilance committee was formed after a man arrived from Columbia carrying what was described as a writ of habeas corpus. The men were taken into the woods, and most were hanged.
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 most were hanged, but the accounts the writers received disagree with each other.
Reported by: news reports.