Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
News dispatches reported in The Bamberg Herald said that in August 1916 this person was one of five Black people, three men and two women, held in the Newberry jail. The dispatches said a mob of about 200 men took the five from the jail, carried them about a mile from town and hanged them together from one large oak tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. News dispatches report that a mob of about 200 men took five Black people from the Newberry jail and hanged them from an oak tree about a mile from town.
Reported by: news dispatches.