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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died August 13, 1913 · South Carolina

A young Black man was taken from a jail in a South Carolina town by a mob on or about August 13, 1913, and lynched, according to a brief wire report in The Madison Daily Leader. He is not named in the report. The same account gives no details of how the mob reached him or whether the jail's officers resisted or handed him over.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

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