Died in custody
Name not reported
According to a brief item in the Independent Statesman, a crowd took four people from a sheriff in South Carolina on May 31, 1876, and shot them. The item gives no names, county, or facility for those killed. It does not say whether the sheriff resisted, gave up the keys, or handed the four over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.